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

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

3. For Vonnegut writing books is like what?
(a) Any other job.
(b) Riding a bike.
(c) Eating a peanut butter sandwich.
(d) Singing a song.

4. What other jobs has Vonnegut had?
(a) Legal analyst, computer technician, magician, and lawyer.
(b) Muralist, cellist, and pro motocross rider.
(c) Creates industrial advertising, sells cars, invents a boardgame, teaches private school.
(d) Stenographer, actor, sailor, and fisherman.

5. Sufferers of what deficiency seek to become members of a crazy artificial extended family?
(a) Folk Society Deficiency.
(b) Vitamin B Deficiency.
(c) Gluten Deficiency.
(d) Auto-Immune Deficiency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut feel out of intellectual step with his new neighbors in Cape Cod?

2. What tough question does Vonnegut's book "Player Piano" ask?

3. How does Vonnegut describe Reagan's and Bush's war experiences?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Vonnegut believe Alcoholics Anonymous is the U.S.'s most nurturing contribution to planetary culture?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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