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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. Who does Hamlet stab through the curtains?
(a) Horatio.
(b) Polonius.
(c) His uncle.
(d) His mother.

2. What is it improper to do to a soldier when he returns home?
(a) Ask him what he saw.
(b) Give him flowers.
(c) Refer to him as a soldier.
(d) Show him a war movie.

3. What did Kurt used to 'laugh his head off' at?
(a) Laurel and Hardy.
(b) Abbot and Costello.
(c) Thelma and Louise.
(d) Laverne and Shirley.

4. Where did Kurt go to high school?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Wessex.
(c) Indianapolis.
(d) Middleton.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Eugene Victor Debs' former occupation?

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

4. What does Freud call laughless jokes?

5. What is the youngest child in a family?

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