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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book series did Jill Krementz read when she was young?
(a) The Lord of the Rings.
(b) Kay Tracey.
(c) Hardy Boys.
(d) Nancy Drew.

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

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

4. Who demonstrated that catastrophes are funny?
(a) Homer.
(b) All of the above.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Voltaire.

5. What does the woman behind the counter at the newsstand have between her eyes?
(a) A mole.
(b) A scar.
(c) A jewel.
(d) A pimple.

6. When were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1897.

7. Where is the newsstand that Kurt goes to?
(a) 43rd Street.
(b) 48th Street.
(c) 22nd Street.
(d) 56th Street.

8. Who was unsure about Jane Marie's decision to marry a German?
(a) An uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her cousins and brothers.

9. What type of line describes the story of "Hamelt?"
(a) High, then low, then higher than ever.
(b) Low, high, then low.
(c) Low, then lower, then lower still.
(d) Flat.

10. What would Kurt ask when he gets to heaven?
(a) Why there is a hell.
(b) If there is a God.
(c) Whether anyone there has read his books.
(d) What the news is.

11. What is Kurt's limit for alcoholic drinks?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

12. What is the name of Kurt's typist?
(a) Megan.
(b) Carol.
(c) Anne.
(d) Sharon.

13. How many men did the British government execute for 'machine breaking' in 1813?
(a) 102.
(b) 4,321.
(c) 55.
(d) 17.

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

15. What is the location for the first oil well in America?
(a) Titusville.
(b) Oil City.
(c) Dalton.
(d) New Castle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who knows more about the spirit world than anyone else?

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

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

4. According to Kurt, what are we here on Earth to do?

5. What can a prince do?

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