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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. How do the Freethinkers behave?
(a) They behave well, even without the motivation of heaven and hell.
(b) They are racist thugs.
(c) They humiliate those of other descents.
(d) They behave well, because they are motivated by the idea of heaven and hell.

2. What does Vonnegut believe may unite mankind, by creating a generation that does not need to fight to be disillusioned by war?
(a) World peace.
(b) Unitarianism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Television.

3. As a writer Vonnegut is an anthropologist and writes about what acculturated primitive people?
(a) The Mayans of Central America.
(b) The people in "Skyscraper National Park."
(c) Midwesterners.
(d) Native North Americans.

4. Where does Vonnegut meet his first wife?
(a) Kindergarten.
(b) The symphony.
(c) An automobile race.
(d) An art gallery.

5. What does Dr. Robert Redfield insist every society passes through?
(a) The "Folk Society" stage.
(b) The "Fauvist Society" stage.
(c) The "Modern Society" stage.
(d) The "Marxist Society" stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do many of Vonnegut's books, including this one, not include?

2. How do jokes work?

3. Vonnegut compares the young people he addresses to what character in Camelot?

4. What German-American movement did not survive?

5. How does Rita Rait become the winner of a limerick contest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What have other cultures done to oppress Germans and those of German descent?

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

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

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

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

6. What does Vonnegut mean when he tells the MIT graduates that they have the power to turn loose or reign in enormous forces?

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

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

9. Do you think, based on the information given, Rita Rait enjoys winning the limerick contest? Why or why not?

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

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