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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. What is his home on Lake Maxincuckee?

2. Dr. Nancy Andreassen finds that people in what profession tend to be depressive or come from depressive families more often than in the general public?

3. To what does Vonnegut compare censorship's always being on the rise, around, and undiagnosed?

4. Even after many years, what is imprinted in Vonnegut's mind?

5. What do Jane and Vonnegut have in common?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Alice a lazy artist?

2. What does Hemingway share with Vonnegut?

3. What is one similarity and one difference between the author and Elie Wiesel?

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

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

6. What is the Reverend's opinion on banning objectionable books?

7. What are two things Vonnegut does not like about President Bush?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

19th century British aristocrats are sufferers of "Folk Society Deficiency."

Part 1) How do they suffer from this deficiency? Who does this affect other people from different cultures?

Part 2) What other areas of the world have suffered in the same way? How?

Part 3) Do societies still suffers from this deficiency? How?

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

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?

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