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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. Although Jill attends private school and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she provide for herself as a grown woman?

2. What does Vonnegut believe about professional artists' opinions on vocal third parties, such as critics, curators, and collectors?

3. Unlike many short-lived 20th-century art movements, what movement has more enthusiasts than ever?

4. In Fates Worse Than Death, humorist Kurt Vonnegut examines the blindness of the American people to the hypocrisy of what administration?

5. What does Vonnegut tell Hemingway scholars defines his fellow Midwesterner?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes Alice a lazy artist?

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

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

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

6. Although Jill Krementz attends private schools and vacations with the rich as a child, how does she support herself as an adult?

7. How has Hemingway grown dated?

8. 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?

9. What is Vonnegut's opinion of the First Amendment?

10. What does Vonnegut say when his book is burned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Today's rulers are doing nothing to Nature's stern but reasonable surrender terms.

Part 1) Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

Part 2) What efforts do you make to help the planet?

Part 3) How do you see our planet in 1,000 years?

Essay Topic 2

Mental illness affects several discussed throughout the book.

Part 1) What could be the cause(s) of the Vonnegut family's mental illness?

Part 2) How does Vonnegut's mother's suicide affect his life?

Part 3) How might Vonnegut feel about his own son's mental illness?

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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