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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 is Vonnegut an advocate for translators?
(a) He pays translators to write his books.
(b) He believes translators are more important than authors.
(c) He is a translator.
(d) He believes translators should be paid the same royalties as authors.

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

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

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

5. Although people with acute mental disorder are less often written off as hopeless, why is there still a lack of certainty for patients and their families?
(a) Psychological testing is dangerous.
(b) Most patients still have to be institutionalized.
(c) Medications can have severe adverse effects.
(d) A dozen separate diseases are still lumped together as schizophrenia/manic depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Vonnegut's favorite translator, with whom he falls in platonic love?

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

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

4. How do the MIT students react to Vonnegut's speech?

5. What is World Vision?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Vonnegut's opinion on war?

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

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

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

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

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