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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 is the United States government conducting a war against?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Communism.
(c) Atheism.
(d) Infidelity.

2. What does Kurt think Shakespeare did not believe in?
(a) Himself.
(b) Absolute truth.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Heaven or Hell.

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

4. What is the youngest child in a family?
(a) A whiner.
(b) A brooder.
(c) A jokemaker.
(d) A thinker.

5. In what year did Albert Camus win a Nobel Prize for literature?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1892.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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