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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. What did Prometheus give to the humans?
(a) Fire.
(b) Gold.
(c) The sword.
(d) Light.

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

3. What does Kurt say made North America into a 'virgin continent?'
(a) Hard work.
(b) The grace of God.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Mother nature.

4. What must every sentence have?
(a) A noun and an adjective.
(b) A subject and a verb.
(c) A semicolon.
(d) A long prison term.

5. How many people were killed in the Dresden firebombing?
(a) 1,350.
(b) 1,350,000.
(c) 135,000.
(d) 13,500.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells Hamlet about the ghost of his father?

2. How many relatives did Kurt's friend in Nigeria have?

3. What did Freud not know?

4. Who built the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine?

5. Who demonstrated that catastrophes are funny?

(see the answer key)

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