Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Stories Quizzes

Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories Quiz 1

1 In "Harrison Bergeron," which character has perfectly average intelligence?
The ballerina

Hazel

Harrison

George
2 In "Harrison Bergeron," who is the Handicapper General?
Diana Moon Glampers

Hazel

Harrison

George
3 In "Harrison Bergeron," how is George physically handicapped?
He is wheel-chair bound.

He is blind.

He must wear birdshot.

He has no legs.
4 In "Harrison Bergeron," who has a speech impediment?
Diana Moon Glampers

the ballerina

the television announcer

Harrison
5 In "Harrison Bergeron," who has escaped from jail?
Hazel

the ballerina

George

Harrison
6 In "Harrison Bergeron," what does Harrison do with the ballerina?
run away

have sex

sing joyfully

dance and kiss
7 In "Harrison Bergeron," how does Harrison die?
He is shot by Diana Moon Glampers.

He dies of natural causes.

He commits suicide in a gas chamber.

He overdoses on drugs.
8 In "Who Am I This Time?", what play does the narrator direct?
"A Streetcar Named Desire"

"Romeo and Juliet"

"Our Town"

"Hamlet"
9 In "Who Am I This Time?", what is Harry Nash's occupation?
He is a professional actor.

He is a dancer.

He is a retired army Colonel.

He is a clerk at a hardware store.
10 In "Who Am I This Time?", why is Helene Shaw in town?
to teach people about the telephone billing machine

to act in the local theater

to buy a mansion

to marry the narrator
11 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene have trouble acting?
because she's never been in love

because she is so old

because she is physically handicapped

because she hates the town of North Crawford
12 In "Who Am I This Time?", who first notices that Helene is falling in love with Harry?
Lydia Miller

the narrator

Doris Sawyer

Harry's mother
13 In "Who Am I This Time?", what does Helene give Harry as a present?
a bunch of roses

a kiss

a costume

a copy of "Romeo and Juliet"
14 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene stay in North Crawford?
because she falls in love with the narrator

because she cannot escape

because she is arrested

because she marries Harry
15 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is a nothinghead?
a movie star

a sexual deviant

an elderly person who still looks young

an idiot
16 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," who does Sheriff Crocker warn the Suicide Parlor Hostesses about?
God

J. Edgar Nation

Nancy McLuhan

Billy the Poet
17 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is NOT true of the Suicide Parlor Hostesses?
They are all African-American.

They wear purple body stockings with nothing underneath.

They are virgins.

They are experts in judo and karate.
18 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," how do people manage to always look twenty-two years old?
The government has put anti-aging medication in the water supply.

Their growth is stunted.

They take anti-aging shots twice per year.

They take anti-gerasone on a regular basis.
19 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," who invented ethical birth control pills?
Pete Crocker

J. Edgar Nation

Billy the Poet

Nancy McLuhan
20 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," how does Billy the Poet disguise himself to Nancy?
as a sherriff

as J. Edgar Nation

as another Suicide Parlor Hostess

as an elderly man seeking assisted suicide
21 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," where is Billy the Poet's hideout?
in a Suicide Parlor

in the museum

in a sewer

in an automated restaurant
22 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what does one of Billy the Poet's female companions inject Nancy with?
smallpox

gin

heroin

truth serum
23 In "Miss Temptation," why is Susanna staying in the village?
She wants to tempt the men of the village.

She is an actress in the local summer theater.

She is working in the pharmacy.

She is a fire fighter.
24 In "Miss Temptation," where does Susanna walk every day?
to the lake

to the pharmacy

to Bearse Hinkley's home

to the church
25 In "Miss Temptation," where has Corporal Norman Fuller just returned from?
Newport

military duty in Korea

a cruise around the world

Cape Cod

As is often the case in Vonnegut's stories, government control is presented as antagonist to individuality. It is the government which runs the Federal Bureau of Termination gas chambers where the suicides take place. In requiring that each new...

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