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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) Maternal humor.
(c) Dead humor.
(d) Gallows humor.

2. How did Albert Camus die?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Train wreck.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Automobile accident.

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

4. How much older is Kurt's sister than he?
(a) Three years.
(b) Six months.
(c) Five years.
(d) Four years.

5. Who said that 'religion is the opium of the people?'
(a) Joseph Stalin.
(b) Adolph Hitler.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Mao Zedong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Kurt use occasionally in jokes?

2. What is not an example of a 'crazy-making' game happening today?

3. What does Kurt try not to do when he's being funny?

4. What is the youngest child in a family?

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

(see the answer key)

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