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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, "Okay, Now Let's Have Some Fun".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Kurt ask Jane Marie Cox to marry him?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1948.

2. What does the man turn into at the end of Franz Kafka's story?
(a) A liar and a cheat.
(b) A cockroach.
(c) A martyr.
(d) A success.

3. What story is Kurt describing when he calls it 'one of the most popular stories ever told?'
(a) Crime and Punishment.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Snow White.
(d) Moby Dick.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the location for the first oil well in America?

2. What did Kurt get a Master's degree in after the war?

3. When were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed?

4. How much older is Kurt's brother than he is?

5. What word does Kurt use to describe today's 'corporate oligarchs?'

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