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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 do many of Vonnegut's books, including this one, not include?
(a) Social groups.
(b) Fantasy creatures.
(c) Mammals.
(d) Individual human beings.

2. After reading William Styron's DARKNESS VISIBLE how does Vonnegut classify those that are suicidal?
(a) Those that are severe and those that are minor.
(b) Those that leave notes and those that do not.
(c) They are either depressed or schizophrenic.
(d) Those that blame it on brain wiring and chemistry or those that blame the Universe

3. What German-American movement did not survive?
(a) The Deutchland movement.
(b) The German-American Quaker movement.
(c) The Pennsylvania Dutch movement.
(d) The German-American Freethinker movement.

4. How does Vonnegut's trip to Mozambique make him feel?
(a) Motivated.
(b) Physically drained.
(c) Emotionally empty.
(d) Enthusiastic.

5. What does Vonnegut never think he owes to himself or the world?
(a) To forgive his mother.
(b) To write a book about Jackson Pollock.
(c) To become a litigator.
(d) To return to writing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are ex-hippies ashamed to belong to their social class?

2. In THE NATION what does Vonnegut claim is the U.S.'s most nurturing contribution to planetary culture?

3. Who sponsors Vonnegut's 1990 trip to Mozambique?

4. How many Americans are of German descent?

5. According to Vonnegut's speech, what power do the MIT graduates have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Vonnegut's opinion on war?

2. What are some examples of humorists who have lost their humor after a certain age? How has their humor been lost?

3. Why should many people take offense to privileged Vonnegut?

4. What is the Folk Society?

5. How is Vonnegut different from other authors mentioned in this chapter?

6. How has Vonnegut's belief in the cause of mental illness changed since the beginning of the book? Why?

7. Why do the MIT graduates applaud politely but not take Vonnegut seriously?

8. Although the subtitle of SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE is "The Children's Crusade," what are the average ages mentioned of those who died in war?

9. According to John Yale, what is the Mozambican's true enemy? Why?

10. Why is the Italian translator, Roberta Rambelli, Vonnegut's favorite?

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