Q 01/05

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater opens by announcing that a leading character in the tale is what?

A) A county courthouse

B) A black telephone

C) A sum of money

D) A family lawsuit

Answer · why

C) A sum of money

A sum of money gets top billing: the Rosewater fortune of more than $87 million. Nearly everyone in the story is defined by how they chase it, guard i...

Q 02/05

2BR02B, a Kilgore Trout story named in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, takes its title from which Shakespeare play?

A) Hamlet

B) Macbeth

C) King Lear

D) Othello

Answer · why

A) Hamlet

Hamlet supplies the pun: read aloud with the zero as 'naught', the title becomes the prince's most famous question. Vonnegut had used the same title f...

Q 03/05

In God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Eliot hallucinates a firestorm engulfing which city, Kurt Vonnegut's own birthplace?

A) Philadelphia

B) Indianapolis

C) Cincinnati

D) Minneapolis

Answer · why

B) Indianapolis

Indianapolis burns in Eliot's mind just as his breakdown begins, and he spends the next year in a mental hospital. The vision borrows the wartime fate...

Q 04/05

Which future Disney composer wrote the music for the 1979 stage musical of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater?

A) Alan Menken

B) Randy Newman

C) Stephen Schwartz

D) Elton John

Answer · why

A) Alan Menken

Alan Menken wrote the score, his first collaboration with lyricist Howard Ashman. The show closed off-Broadway after 49 performances, but the pair wen...

Q 05/05

Eliot Rosewater is haunted by wartime guilt after mistakenly killing Germans who turned out to be what?

A) Stretcher bearers

B) Musicians

C) Firefighters

D) Schoolboys

Answer · why

C) Firefighters

Firefighters, not enemy soldiers, were his victims, one of them a boy of fourteen. Serving with a volunteer brigade back home is how Eliot tries to at...