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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, "Do You Know What A Twerp Is?".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Freud call laughless jokes?
(a) Silent humor.
(b) Gallows humor.
(c) Dead humor.
(d) Maternal humor.

2. When did Kurt write "Slaughterhouse Five?"
(a) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1951.

3. What is humor a physiological response to?
(a) Absurdity.
(b) Ridiculousness.
(c) Pain.
(d) Fear.

4. When were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed?
(a) 1897.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1927.

5. According to Kurt Vonnegut, who wrote the greatest American short story?
(a) William McKinley.
(b) Robert Enrico.
(c) Emily Dickenson.
(d) Ambrose Bierce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Victorians not discuss?

2. How did Albert Camus die?

3. What did Kurt study in university?

4. What can Kurt not imagine a funny book about?

5. What was Eugene Victor Debs' former occupation?

(see the answer key)

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