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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, "Here is a Lesson in Creative Writing".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kurt get a Master's degree in after the war?
(a) Literature.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Anthropology.

2. What will Kurt tell readers from now on?
(a) A very slanted version of events.
(b) The truth and nothing but the truth.
(c) When he is kidding.
(d) Absolutely nothing worth reading.

3. What can Kurt not imagine a funny book about?
(a) All of the above.
(b) Martin Luther King.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Kurt to older people at the dinner table when he was very young?

3. What would Kurt ask when he gets to heaven?

4. What story is Kurt describing when he calls it 'one of the most popular stories ever told?'

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

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