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

2. What is the definition of this society of which Dr. Robert Redfield speaks?
(a) It is an organization that teaches folk dances of various cultures.
(b) It is isolated geographically and members agree on what life is about and behave uniformly.
(c) It is a wide-spread belief in diversity and acceptance of others.
(d) It is an organization that encourages country living.

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

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

5. What features imperialism, the capture of other societies' lands, and treasure by arms?
(a) "Hocus Pocus."
(b) "The House of Mirth."
(c) "Le Petit Prince."
(d) "The Nation."

Short Answer Questions

1. After reading William Styron's DARKNESS VISIBLE how does Vonnegut classify those that are suicidal?

2. What does Vonnegut believe most ancient writings, including the Bible, do?

3. How does Mark feel about the 1960s?

4. How do jokes work?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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