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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut become cranky when hearing his requiem performed?

2. To what author's work does Vonnegut compare the Bill of Rights' First Amendment?

3. What mental illness does the author's son suffer and recover from?

4. Who translates Vonnegut's requiem into Latin?

5. What does Vonnegut assert is often Hemingway's male characters' greatest reward?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jill embody the Women's Liberation Movement? How does this attitude toward life make her a better person?

2. Of what significant Indianapolis building is Father the founder? Why is he bitter over the additions made on this building?

3. What are two characteristics of Jackson Pollock's work?

4. What does Hemingway share with Vonnegut?

5. A unicorn, it is said, will lay its head in a maiden's lap if she sits in a forest clearing. Why is Vonnegut's sister, Alice, the maiden to Father's unicorn?

6. What is Vonnegut's opinion of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters? Support your answer.

7. The 20th century is the first to get reliable information about the human condition. Why does Vonnegut believe that this could be a bad thing?

8. Compare and contrast the character Billy Pilgrim to the character's model, Joe Crone.

9. How are the Reverend and the Attorney General's Commission on Pornography the same?

10. What is Vonnegut's opinion of liberty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

People use a variety of techniques to relieve stress and the pressures of life.

Part 1) What are the techniques Vonnegut names?

Part 2) Do they seem to work?

Part 3) What do you do to relieve stress? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Vonnegut says young writers should moralize in a reader-friendly way.

Part 1) Why do you think he says this?

Part 2) Do you agree? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Vonnegut does not believe Liberty has yet to be born.

Part 1) Do you agree or disagree? Why?

Part 2) What can you do to bring about the birth of Liberty?

Part 3) How do you see progression of liberty over the next 100 years?

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