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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 Mark's only crime against his government?
(a) Disrespect.
(b) Identity theft.
(c) Murder.
(d) Theft.

2. What is the subtitle of SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE?
(a) "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
(b) "The Children's Crusade."
(c) "A Mature Decision."
(d) "The Last Crusade."

3. According to Vonnegut's speech, what power do the MIT graduates have?
(a) To control the world's resources.
(b) To reign in or let loose enormous forces.
(c) To find a job in their city of choice.
(d) To save the United States from self-destruction.

4. What pictures would Vonnegut hang if he were president of MIT?
(a) Bob Fosse's Sally Bowles.
(b) Robert Lewis Stevenson's Edward Hyde.
(c) JK Rowling's Harry Potter.
(d) Pictures of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein" monster.

5. What is an example of a book that Vonnegut believes moralizes?
(a) "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing."
(b) "Blubber."
(c) "Lord of the Rings."
(d) "Gulliver's Travels."

Short Answer Questions

1. Those with addiction eventually hit rock bottom. Vonnegut believes Western Civilization hit rock bottom in World War I. Unlike those with addictions who admit that their addiction is ruining their lives, how does Western Civilization react to hitting rock bottom?

2. Vonnegut's 1990 article in the New York Times observes that American humorists/satirists grow to be what past a certain age?

3. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?

4. What is a scheme of self-defense that only maligned and oppressed minorities should be allowed to use?

5. What does Vonnegut compare to an alcoholic stockbroker not wanting his head in a Port Authority Bus Terminal toilet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two reasons Vonnegut is skeptical of Christianity?

2. What terrible thing happens to sufferers of "Folk Society Deficiency," or FSD? Give an example.

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

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

5. How does Jane Cox deal with her loneliness when her children are grown and move out?

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

7. How are ex-hippies more scarred than Vietnam veterans?

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

9. Why does Vonnegut believe Colonialism will bust up all cultures and create a Third World planet?

10. What is the Folk Society?

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