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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "I'm Going to Tell You Some News".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kurt going to do?
(a) Sue a tobacco company.
(b) Write another book.
(c) Sleep with children.
(d) Run for President.

2. Who demonstrated that catastrophes are funny?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Homer.

3. Who built the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine?
(a) Ferdinand Redtenbacher.
(b) Wilhelm Maybach.
(c) Gottlieb Daimler.
(d) Karl Benz.

4. Who tells Hamlet about the ghost of his father?
(a) Rush Limbaugh.
(b) Horatio.
(c) Polonius.
(d) Perry Mason.

5. Who does Hamlet stab through the curtains?
(a) His mother.
(b) Polonius.
(c) His uncle.
(d) Horatio.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older is Kurt's sister than he?

2. What was Powers Hapgood's occupation after graduating from Harvard?

3. According to Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote the greatest American short story?

4. What did Kurt study in university?

5. What did Prometheus give to the humans?

(see the answer key)

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