Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Stories Quizzes

Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories Quiz 1

By Meghan Joyce Tozer · Edited by S. R. Cedars · Last reviewed May 27, 2014

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

Harrison

Hazel

George

The ballerina
2 In "Harrison Bergeron," who is the Handicapper General?

Harrison

George

Hazel

Diana Moon Glampers
3 In "Harrison Bergeron," how is George physically handicapped?

He has no legs.

He is blind.

He must wear birdshot.

He is wheel-chair bound.
4 In "Harrison Bergeron," who has a speech impediment?

the ballerina

Diana Moon Glampers

Harrison

the television announcer
5 In "Harrison Bergeron," who has escaped from jail?

Harrison

Hazel

the ballerina

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

have sex

sing joyfully

run away

dance and kiss
7 In "Harrison Bergeron," how does Harrison die?

He is shot by Diana Moon Glampers.

He dies of natural causes.

He overdoses on drugs.

He commits suicide in a gas chamber.
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 dancer.

He is a professional actor.

He is a clerk at a hardware store.

He is a retired army Colonel.
10 In "Who Am I This Time?", why is Helene Shaw in town?

to teach people about the telephone billing machine

to marry the narrator

to act in the local theater

to buy a mansion
11 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene have trouble acting?

because she is physically handicapped

because she's never been in love

because she hates the town of North Crawford

because she is so old
12 In "Who Am I This Time?", who first notices that Helene is falling in love with Harry?

the narrator

Doris Sawyer

Lydia Miller

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

a kiss

a costume

a copy of "Romeo and Juliet"

a bunch of roses
14 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene stay in North Crawford?

because she cannot escape

because she falls in love with the narrator

because she marries Harry

because she is arrested
15 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is a nothinghead?

an idiot

a sexual deviant

an elderly person who still looks young

a movie star
16 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," who does Sheriff Crocker warn the Suicide Parlor Hostesses about?

Billy the Poet

Nancy McLuhan

J. Edgar Nation

God
17 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is NOT true of the Suicide Parlor Hostesses?

They wear purple body stockings with nothing underneath.

They are all African-American.

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.

They take anti-gerasone on a regular basis.

Their growth is stunted.

They take anti-aging shots twice per year.
19 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," who invented ethical birth control pills?

J. Edgar Nation

Billy the Poet

Pete Crocker

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

as another Suicide Parlor Hostess

as a sherriff

as an elderly man seeking assisted suicide

as J. Edgar Nation
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

truth serum

gin

heroin
23 In "Miss Temptation," why is Susanna staying in the village?

She is working in the pharmacy.

She is an actress in the local summer theater.

She wants to tempt the men of the village.

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

to the church

to the lake

to the pharmacy

to Bearse Hinkley's home
25 In "Miss Temptation," where has Corporal Norman Fuller just returned from?

Cape Cod

Newport

military duty in Korea

a cruise around the world

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