Kurt Vonnegut’s Short Stories Quizzes

Kurt Vonnegut's Short Stories Quiz 1

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

The ballerina

Harrison

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

Diana Moon Glampers

Hazel

Harrison
3 In "Harrison Bergeron," how is George physically handicapped?
He has no legs.

He must wear birdshot.

He is blind.

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

the ballerina

the television announcer

Diana Moon Glampers
5 In "Harrison Bergeron," who has escaped from jail?
George

the ballerina

Hazel

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

sing joyfully

have sex

dance and kiss
7 In "Harrison Bergeron," how does Harrison die?
He dies of natural causes.

He overdoses on drugs.

He commits suicide in a gas chamber.

He is shot by Diana Moon Glampers.
8 In "Who Am I This Time?", what play does the narrator direct?
"A Streetcar Named Desire"

"Our Town"

"Hamlet"

"Romeo and Juliet"
9 In "Who Am I This Time?", what is Harry Nash's occupation?
He is a clerk at a hardware store.

He is a retired army Colonel.

He is a dancer.

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 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's never been in love

because she hates the town of North Crawford

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?
Harry's mother

the narrator

Doris Sawyer

Lydia Miller
13 In "Who Am I This Time?", what does Helene give Harry as a present?
a costume

a bunch of roses

a copy of "Romeo and Juliet"

a kiss
14 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene stay in North Crawford?
because she marries Harry

because she is arrested

because she cannot escape

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

a sexual deviant

an idiot
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 virgins.

They are all African-American.

They wear purple body stockings with nothing underneath.

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?
They take anti-gerasone on a regular basis.

Their growth is stunted.

The government has put anti-aging medication in the water supply.

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

Pete Crocker

Billy the Poet

Nancy McLuhan
20 In "Welcome to the Monkey House," how does Billy the Poet disguise himself to Nancy?
as another Suicide Parlor Hostess

as J. Edgar Nation

as a sherriff

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

in a Suicide Parlor

in an automated restaurant

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

smallpox

gin

truth serum
23 In "Miss Temptation," why is Susanna staying in the village?
She is a fire fighter.

She is an actress in the local summer theater.

She is working in the pharmacy.

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

to the church

to Bearse Hinkley's home

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

a cruise around the world

military duty in Korea

Cape Cod