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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. What is one thing Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future?
(a) Countries in the future should stop communicating with one another.
(b) Leaders of the future should fix the environment issues through scientific discoveries.
(c) Future generations need to use more petroleum for fuel.
(d) Today's rulers need to stop thinking science can fix anything for $1 trillion.

2. 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 condominiums.
(d) billion-dollar airplanes.

3. Vonnegut defends what freedom?
(a) Freedom of religion.
(b) Freedom of assembly.
(c) Freedom of the press.
(d) Freedom of speech.

4. In Fates Worse Than Death, humorist Kurt Vonnegut examines the blindness of the American people to the hypocrisy of what administration?
(a) Reagan Administration.
(b) Clinton Administration.
(c) Carter Administration.
(d) Smith Administration.

5. What does Pollock use to control his hands when he paints?
(a) Ideas from critics.
(b) A painter's machine.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Early sketches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

2. Why does Vonnegut like to write pieces for Architectural Digest?

3. What does Vonnegut believe all women bottle inside of themselves, which his mother releases unwittingly at midnight?

4. Does Vonnegut believe that most civilians can be considered a "well-regulated militia?"

5. What causes the author's mother's untreated insanity?

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. A master's degree in anthropology has taught Vonnegut the "villains" are culture, society and history, not drugs. What proof does Vonnegut give of this belief?

4. What is one similarity and one difference between the author and Elie Wiesel?

5. What are four things Vonnegut and O'Hare have in common?

6. The 20th century is the first to get reliable information about the human condition. Why does Vonnegut believe that this could be a bad thing?

7. Although Jill Krementz attends private schools and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she support herself as an adult?

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

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

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

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