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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Attorney General's Commission, what is worth its expensive price tag?
(a) billion-dollar financial institutions.
(b) billion-dollar NASA spacecraft.
(c) billion-dollar airplanes.
(d) billion-dollar condominiums.

2. For what does the traditional requiem ask?
(a) Eternal rest for the dead, where God's light perpetually shines on them.
(b) Sinners to be damned to Hell for all eternity.
(c) Entrance to the Kingdom of Heaven by Saint Peter.
(d) A heaven filled with angels playing harps.

3. Vonnegut Sr. is denied his dreams by what event?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) September 11, 2001.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Civil War.

4. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War I.
(c) His writing.
(d) His cats.

5. What does Vonnegut create during his summers at Lake Maxincuckee in southern Indiana?
(a) Camp fires.
(b) A wooden canoe.
(c) Imaginary friends.
(d) His first map of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Vonnegut get sick?

2. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?

3. In what year does the author's father die?

4. What does the author use as a recurrent symbol of U.S. political stupidities?

5. Why does Vonnegut become cranky when hearing his requiem performed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Reverend's opinion on banning objectionable books?

2. What are two things Vonnegut does not like about President Bush?

3. What is Vonnegut's opinion of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters? Support your answer.

4. What historical information does Vonnegut give about requiem masses?

5. What does FATES WORSE THAN DEATH by humorist Kurt Vonnegut contain?

6. Why does Father not enjoy working as an architect?

7. How is Father's reaction to praise for his artwork different from his daughter's?

8. How does Vonnegut's requiem mass differ from Andrew Lloyd Webber's?

9. How can you tell Vonnegut does not value medals and awards?

10. Describe Vonnegut's experiences at Lake Maxincuckee.

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