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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 will bust up all cultures and create a Third-World planet?
(a) Communism.
(b) Colonialism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalism.

2. What is the name of the Bishop Vonnegut travels with to the Galapagos?
(a) Bishop Moore.
(b) Bishop Smith.
(c) Bishop Morgan.
(d) Bishop Vale.

3. Vonnegut's 1990 article in the New York Times observes that American humorists/satirists grow to be what past a certain age?
(a) Sarcastic old men.
(b) Grumpy.
(c) Intolerably unfunny pessimists.
(d) Enthusiastic optimists.

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

5. Who is Vonnegut's favorite translator, with whom he falls in platonic love?
(a) Ramon Ramone.
(b) Roberta Rambelli.
(c) Rita Rait.
(d) Rachel Ray.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique?

2. Why are Vonnegut's jokes not funny?

3. Who is the author of THE KILIMANJARO DEVICE?

4. How do jokes work?

5. Who does the author have die glamorously in an airplane crash into Mt. Kilimanjaro?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the "Kilimanjaro Device" give as an alternative to Hemingway's shooting himself in the head?

6. How is RENAMO destroying the beautiful country of Mozambique?

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

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

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

10. What is Vonnegut's opinion on war?

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