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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. With whom does Vonnegut travel to Mozambique?
(a) Bill Pilgrim.
(b) Mark Vonnegut.
(c) John Yale.
(d) Jill Krementz.

2. What German-American movement did not survive?
(a) The German-American Quaker movement.
(b) The Pennsylvania Dutch movement.
(c) The German-American Freethinker movement.
(d) The Deutchland movement.

3. 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.

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

5. What university do Vonnegut's grandfather, father, uncle, and brother attend?
(a) Yale.
(b) MIT.
(c) Harvard.
(d) IUPUI.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, how many hours of television Failures of Christianity (murders) has one watched by graduation?

2. Why are certain words in Rait's limerick replaced with the sound "dah" when recited on the BBC?

3. From what event can ordinary humans not learn how much pain and humiliation to endure before calling an end to everything?

4. According to Vonnegut's speech, what power do the MIT graduates have?

5. Jane, Vonnegut's first wife, is born a Quaker and dies as a member of what denomination?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the Folk Society?

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

6. Name two things Vonnegut mentions in his letter to the future.

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

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

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

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

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