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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is all pop music today derived from?
(a) African percussion.
(b) The blues.
(c) Mozart.
(d) Jazz.

2. Who was President during the 1848 war with Mexico?
(a) Taylor.
(b) Tyler.
(c) Polk.
(d) Lincoln.

3. What type of people want to become President?
(a) Corrupt businessmen.
(b) Go-getters.
(c) Nut cases.
(d) Normal people.

4. Whose line of Democratic tradition does Kurt belong to?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Richard Herbert Nixon.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

5. What was a 'humiliating, shameful, blood-soaked year?'
(a) 2001.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1942.

6. What makes life worth living for Kurt, other than music?
(a) Nature.
(b) Sex.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Saints.

7. What does each short chapter in "Cat's Cradle" represent?
(a) Whatever you want it to.
(b) A year of Kurt's life.
(c) A stand-alone work of art.
(d) One day's work.

8. What do humanists not believe in?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Community.
(c) The afterlife.
(d) Mercy.

9. When did Eugene Debs die?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1911.

10. How many kids does Kurt have?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

11. What does Gil Berman do for a living?
(a) Comedian.
(b) Actor.
(c) Painter.
(d) Writer.

12. How long ago did Kurt's business fail?
(a) 26 years ago.
(b) 33 years ago.
(c) 11 years ago.
(d) 42 years ago.

13. What type of attack is it not possible to survive?
(a) Hydrogen bomb attack.
(b) Biological weapon attack.
(c) Chemical weapon attack.
(d) Terrorist attack.

14. How old is Kurt's daughter, Lily?
(a) 23.
(b) 22.
(c) 24.
(d) 21.

15. In what country did Kurt experience the best rhythm-and-blues combo he had ever heard?
(a) England.
(b) Poland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Finland.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kurt, what are we not born with?

2. Which of Mark Twain's family and/or friends died before him?

3. What type of doctor is Kurt's son?

4. What is the only proof Kurt needs for the existence of God?

5. When did Abbie Hoffman die?

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