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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. How much does Vonnegut believe is enough to make a masterpiece? Beyond that, it is like empty talk at the end of a party.

2. Where does Vonnegut first meet O'Hare?

3. What is the name of Vonnegut's unfinished book depicting a doctor using talk therapy at Auschwitz to treat staff members' depression?

4. Vonnegut references what Biblical story to his belief that people find life too hard and disappointing to act on repairing it?

5. What date lives forever in infamy for Vonnegut?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut say the NRA is incorrect in its use of Article II of the Bill of Rights?

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

3. What historical information does Vonnegut give about requiem masses?

4. What does FATES WORSE THAN DEATH by humorist Kurt Vonnegut contain?

5. How has Hemingway grown dated?

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

7. What is Vonnegut's opinion of liberty?

8. Name one similarity and one difference between Jane and Vonnegut.

9. Vonnegut says children relate to the Universe as a one-on-one playmate. What profession does the same? When would members of this profession no longer play this way?

10. Why does Father not enjoy working as an architect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Vonnegut considers some people saints.

Part 1) Name two people he considers saints. Why?

Part 2) What do you believe the requirements are for being considered a saint?

Part 3) Who in your life would you consider a saint? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Vonnegut claims the U.S.'s most nurturing contribution to planetary culture is Alcoholics Anonymous.

Part 1) Why does he believe this?

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

Part 3) What else has the U.S. contributed to better the planet?

Essay Topic 3

Vonnegut says he does not care if he is remembered when he dies.

Part 1) What examples of authors does he give who do want to be remembered?

Part 2) Compare and contrast the reasons why Vonnegut and other writers may or may not want to be remembered.

Part 3) Do you want to be remembered when you die? Why or why not?

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