Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Stories Quizzes

Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories Quiz 1

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

The ballerina

George

Hazel
2 In "Harrison Bergeron," who is the Handicapper General?
George

Harrison

Hazel

Diana Moon Glampers
3 In "Harrison Bergeron," how is George physically handicapped?
He must wear birdshot.

He is blind.

He has no legs.

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

the television announcer

the ballerina

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

sing joyfully

dance and kiss

have sex
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?
"Romeo and Juliet"

"Hamlet"

"Our Town"

"A Streetcar Named Desire"
9 In "Who Am I This Time?", what is Harry Nash's occupation?
He is a retired army Colonel.

He is a dancer.

He is a clerk at a hardware store.

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

to buy a mansion

to marry the narrator

to act in the local theater
11 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene have trouble acting?
because she hates the town of North Crawford

because she's never been in love

because she is so old

because she is physically handicapped
12 In "Who Am I This Time?", who first notices that Helene is falling in love with Harry?
Lydia Miller

the narrator

Harry's mother

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

a copy of "Romeo and Juliet"

a costume

a kiss
14 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene stay in North Crawford?
because she cannot escape

because she is arrested

because she marries Harry

because she falls in love with the narrator
15 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is a nothinghead?
a movie star

an elderly person who still looks young

an idiot

a sexual deviant
16 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," who does Sheriff Crocker warn the Suicide Parlor Hostesses about?
J. Edgar Nation

God

Nancy McLuhan

Billy the Poet
17 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what is NOT true of the Suicide Parlor Hostesses?
They are experts in judo and karate.

They are virgins.

They are all African-American.

They wear purple body stockings with nothing underneath.
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-gerasone on a regular basis.

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

J. Edgar Nation

Billy the Poet

Pete Crocker
20 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," how does Billy the Poet disguise himself to Nancy?
as an elderly man seeking assisted suicide

as a sherriff

as another Suicide Parlor Hostess

as J. Edgar Nation
21 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," where is Billy the Poet's hideout?
in an automated restaurant

in the museum

in a Suicide Parlor

in a sewer
22 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," what does one of Billy the Poet's female companions inject Nancy with?
truth serum

smallpox

gin

heroin
23 In "Miss Temptation," why is Susanna staying in the village?
She is an actress in the local summer theater.

She is working in the pharmacy.

She is a fire fighter.

She wants to tempt the men of the village.
24 In "Miss Temptation," where does Susanna walk every day?
to the church

to Bearse Hinkley's home

to the pharmacy

to the lake
25 In "Miss Temptation," where has Corporal Norman Fuller just returned from?
a cruise around the world

military duty in Korea

Cape Cod

Newport