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

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

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

4. When the definition for Schizophrenia has been tightened, how is Mark now classified?
(a) Manic-depressive.
(b) Schizophrenic.
(c) Suicidal.
(d) Mentally retarded.

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) A dozen separate diseases are still lumped together as schizophrenia/manic depression.
(d) Medications can have severe adverse effects.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is World Vision?

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

3. How does Rita Rait become the winner of a limerick contest?

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

5. Vonnegut believes MIT can set an example by adapting what to its undertakings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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