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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the location for the first oil well in America?
(a) Titusville.
(b) New Castle.
(c) Dalton.
(d) Oil City.
2. Why can Kurt not stand primitive people?
(a) They are stupid.
(b) They cannot read his books.
(c) They died a long time ago.
(d) He can never talk to them.
3. What would Kurt ask when he gets to heaven?
(a) Whether anyone there has read his books.
(b) Why there is a hell.
(c) What the news is.
(d) If there is a God.
4. What would Kurt use occasionally in jokes?
(a) Obscene words.
(b) Political references.
(c) Innuendos.
(d) Racial slurs.
5. How have humans destroyed the planet?
(a) Fossil fuels.
(b) By cutting down the rainforest.
(c) Overpopulation.
(d) Atomic weapons.
6. When did Kurt write "Slaughterhouse Five?"
(a) 1968.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1969.
7. What type of line describes the story of "Hamelt?"
(a) Low, high, then low.
(b) Low, then lower, then lower still.
(c) High, then low, then higher than ever.
(d) Flat.
8. According to Kurt, what are we here on Earth to do?
(a) Work hard.
(b) Make a difference.
(c) Multiply.
(d) Fart around.
9. What does Kurt think Shakespeare did not believe in?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Himself.
(c) Absolute truth.
(d) Heaven or Hell.
10. What is Kurt addicted to?
(a) Sex.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cocaine.
11. What is humor a physiological response to?
(a) Absurdity.
(b) Pain.
(c) Ridiculousness.
(d) Fear.
12. How did Albert Camus die?
(a) Train wreck.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Automobile accident.
(d) Suicide.
13. What did the Victorians not discuss?
(a) Class.
(b) Technology.
(c) Sex.
(d) Religion.
14. When did Kurt ask Jane Marie Cox to marry him?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1948.
15. When did the first crack appear between English and German Americans?
(a) When the Germans first arrived.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) The First World War.
(d) World War II.
Short Answer Questions
1. What city did Kurt see the destruction of first-hand?
2. What was Ned Ludd's line of work?
3. How many pages would Kurt type before making corrections with a pencil?
4. What is the postal convenience center close to?
5. How many people were killed in the Dresden firebombing?
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