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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 was Kurt to older people at the dinner table when he was very young?
(a) Boring.
(b) Annoying.
(c) Intriguing.
(d) Interesting.

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

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

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

5. What would Kurt ask when he gets to heaven?
(a) What the news is.
(b) Why there is a hell.
(c) If there is a God.
(d) Whether anyone there has read his books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Kurt's high school?

2. What does the man turn into at the end of Franz Kafka's story?

3. What type of stories did Franz Kafka write?

4. How long has it taken humanity to destroy the planet?

5. Who made Kurt's first car?

(see the answer key)

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