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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 is not an example of a 'crazy-making' game happening today?
(a) Religion.
(b) Girl's basketball.
(c) Liberalism.
(d) Love.

2. What does a dog do when he can't get out of a gate?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Make meaningless gestures.
(c) Growl.
(d) Start scratching and digging.

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

4. What city did Kurt see the destruction of first-hand?
(a) Dresden.
(b) Berlin.
(c) New York.
(d) London.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Albert Camus win a Nobel Prize for literature?

2. What did Kurt study in university?

3. What did Kurt used to 'laugh his head off' at?

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

5. What was the only way Kurt could get into an adult conversation when he was young?

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