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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Kurt to older people at the dinner table when he was very young?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Boring.
(c) Annoying.
(d) Intriguing.

2. What has 'beat the heck' out of Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) Morality.
(b) Progress.
(c) Regret.
(d) Ignorance.

3. What is a Luddite?
(a) A religious zealot.
(b) A slow, lazy person.
(c) An idiot with no respect for those with more intelligence.
(d) A person who hates new technology.

4. What is Kurt going to do?
(a) Write another book.
(b) Sue a tobacco company.
(c) Sleep with children.
(d) Run for President.

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

6. What is humor a physiological response to?
(a) Ridiculousness.
(b) Pain.
(c) Absurdity.
(d) Fear.

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

8. How long ago was the first electric generator built?
(a) 212 years ago.
(b) 111 years ago.
(c) 172 years ago.
(d) 99 years ago.

9. During what time period did Kurt grow up?
(a) The Roaring Twenties.
(b) The Flower Power Decade.
(c) The Great War.
(d) The Great Depression.

10. What do women want?
(a) A rich man.
(b) Children.
(c) A lot of people to talk to.
(d) To be respected.

11. What can a prince do?
(a) Be true to himself.
(b) Make war.
(c) Be neither a borrower nor a lender.
(d) Kill anyone he wants.

12. How many pages would Kurt type before making corrections with a pencil?
(a) About twenty.
(b) As many as he could in an hour.
(c) Five or six.
(d) Fifty or so.

13. How have humans destroyed the planet?
(a) Atomic weapons.
(b) Fossil fuels.
(c) Overpopulation.
(d) By cutting down the rainforest.

14. Why can Kurt not stand primitive people?
(a) They are stupid.
(b) They cannot read his books.
(c) He can never talk to them.
(d) They died a long time ago.

15. What is the name of the first story that Kurt demonstrates with a line graph?
(a) Man in Love.
(b) Man in World.
(c) Man in Hole.
(d) Man in Trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Kurt's high school?

2. What was Ned Ludd's line of work?

3. According to Kurt, what are the arts?

4. What does the man turn into at the end of Franz Kafka's story?

5. What type of stories did Franz Kafka write?

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