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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. When does Vonnegut get sick?
(a) In the fall.
(b) In the spring.
(c) When it is useful to him.
(d) When he does not get enough sleep.

2. Requiem masses are customarily sung in what language?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Latin.
(d) Spanish.

3. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?
(a) The day he is first married.
(b) O'Hare's death.
(c) the day of his mother's suicide.
(d) His sister's birth.

4. Who translates Vonnegut's requiem into Latin?
(a) Thomas R. Collins.
(b) John F. Collins.
(c) Collin P. Miller.
(d) Collin F. Johnson.

5. Why can Vonnegut not get married at an Episcopalian church?
(a) He is not a Christian.
(b) His wife is not Episcopalian.
(c) Vonnegut already has children.
(d) Vonnegut is divorced.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why does the Spanish Civil War give Hemingway material rather than World War I?

4. What government authority has several of its members involved in financial or sexual atrocities, as well as advocating for civilians to be armed with assault rifles?

5. What is the date of Vonnegut's requiem's premier?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Vonnegut says children relate to the Universe as a one-on-one playmate. What profession does the same? When would members of this profession no longer play this way?

4. Why does Vonnegut say the NRA is incorrect in its use of Article II of the Bill of Rights?

5. How has Hemingway grown dated?

6. How are the Reverend and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography different?

7. Describe Vonnegut's experiences at Lake Maxincuckee.

8. How are the Reverend and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography the same?

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

10. Compare and contrast the character Billy Pilgrim to the character's model, Joe Crone.

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