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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Freud call laughless jokes?
(a) Maternal humor.
(b) Gallows humor.
(c) Dead humor.
(d) Silent humor.
2. When did Kurt ask Jane Marie Cox to marry him?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1948.
3. Why do so many people get divorced today?
(a) No extended families.
(b) Divorce is more socially acceptable.
(c) People are unhappier these days.
(d) Incompatible personalities.
4. What word does Kurt use to describe today's 'corporate oligarchs?'
(a) Elitist.
(b) Affluent.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Polyglot.
5. Where is the newsstand that Kurt goes to?
(a) 22nd Street.
(b) 48th Street.
(c) 56th Street.
(d) 43rd Street.
6. In what year did Albert Camus win a Nobel Prize for literature?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1892.
7. What is a Luddite?
(a) A person who hates new technology.
(b) A religious zealot.
(c) An idiot with no respect for those with more intelligence.
(d) A slow, lazy person.
8. Who does Hamlet stab through the curtains?
(a) Horatio.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His mother.
(d) Polonius.
9. What type of water does Kurt prefer?
(a) Saltwater.
(b) Running water.
(c) Freshwater.
(d) Icewater.
10. How much older is Kurt's brother than he is?
(a) Nine years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Twelve years.
11. What is the youngest child in a family?
(a) A thinker.
(b) A brooder.
(c) A whiner.
(d) A jokemaker.
12. What was Ned Ludd's line of work?
(a) Masonry.
(b) Textiles.
(c) Transportation.
(d) Typing.
13. How many pages would Kurt type before making corrections with a pencil?
(a) As many as he could in an hour.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Fifty or so.
(d) About twenty.
14. What type of bird are Kurt and his typist trying to attract?
(a) Robins.
(b) Killdeers.
(c) Bluebirds.
(d) Mourning Doves.
15. How long did prohibition last?
(a) From 1919-1933.
(b) From 1910-1922.
(c) From 1921-1945.
(d) From 1930-1940.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did one of Kurt's ancestors lose in battle?
2. What will Kurt tell readers from now on?
3. What must every sentence have?
4. Who did Kurt smoke marijuana with?
5. What does a dog do when he can't get out of a gate?
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