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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Kurt, what are we not born with?
(a) Passion.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Intelligence.

2. 'The good Earth--we could have saved it, but we were too damn...'
(a) '...cheap and lazy.'
(b) '...busy playing golf.'
(c) '...stupid to figure out how.'
(d) '...stubborn to do it.'

3. What does PP stand for?
(a) Perceptive Personality.
(b) Poisonous Personality.
(c) Pathological Personality.
(d) Psychopathic Personality.

4. Where was the election 'shamelessly rigged?'
(a) Texas.
(b) Florida.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Illinois.

5. According to Kurt, what occupied country has America become like?
(a) Ukraine.
(b) France.
(c) Poland.
(d) Palestine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did humanists used to be referred to as?

2. What does Gil Berman do for a living?

3. What was a 'humiliating, shameful, blood-soaked year?'

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

5. What type of people want to become President?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Kurt feel about music?

2. What does Kurt say the book is about?

3. According to Kurt, what has his children's generation inherited?

4. What does Kurt say about the value of books?

5. What does Kurt say about guessing?

6. What does Kurt say about the war with Mexico?

7. What comparison does Kurt make involving the Bush administration? What values would he like to see the government adopt?

8. Who is Gil Berman?

9. What does Kurt say is all he really ever wanted to do?

10. What is Kurt's theory about time?

(see the answer keys)

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