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?

Hazel

Harrison

George

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

Diana Moon Glampers

Harrison

Hazel

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

He is wheel-chair bound.

He must wear birdshot.

He has no legs.

He is blind.
4 In "Harrison Bergeron," who has a speech impediment?

the television announcer

Harrison

Diana Moon Glampers

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

Harrison

George

the ballerina

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

have sex

run away

sing joyfully

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

He dies of natural causes.

He commits suicide in a gas chamber.

He overdoses on drugs.

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

"Hamlet"

"Romeo and Juliet"

"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 act in the local theater

to marry the narrator

to teach people about the telephone billing machine

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

because she is physically handicapped

because she hates the town of North Crawford

because she is so old

because she's never been in love
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 costume

a kiss

a bunch of roses

a copy of "Romeo and Juliet"
14 In "Who Am I This Time?", why does Helene stay in North Crawford?

because she cannot escape

because she is arrested

because she falls in love with the narrator

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

an elderly person who still looks young

a sexual deviant

a movie star

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

God

Billy the Poet

Nancy McLuhan

J. Edgar Nation
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 experts in judo and karate.

They are virgins.
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?

Pete Crocker

J. Edgar Nation

Nancy McLuhan

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

as another Suicide Parlor Hostess

as an elderly man seeking assisted suicide

as a sherriff

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

in a sewer

in a Suicide Parlor

in an automated restaurant

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

truth serum

heroin

gin

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

She is a fire fighter.

She is working in the pharmacy.

She wants to tempt the men of the village.

She is an actress in the local summer theater.
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?

military duty in Korea

Newport

Cape Cod

a cruise around the world

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