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

2. What would Kurt use occasionally in jokes?
(a) Racial slurs.
(b) Political references.
(c) Obscene words.
(d) Innuendos.

3. What did Kurt used to 'laugh his head off' at?
(a) Thelma and Louise.
(b) Abbot and Costello.
(c) Laurel and Hardy.
(d) Laverne and Shirley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What can a prince do?

2. Who appeared to George W. Bush when he was forty-one?

3. What is the name of the first story that Kurt demonstrates with a line graph?

4. How many people were killed in the Dresden firebombing?

5. What is it improper to do to a soldier when he returns home?

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