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

2. What genre does Kilgore Trout write?
(a) Science fiction.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Suspense.
(d) Horror.

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

4. What did Abbie Hoffman say was the new high?
(a) Apple skins taken intraveinously.
(b) Lemon rind taken orally.
(c) Banana peels taken rectally.
(d) Orange peels taken intranasally.

5. What type of people are not welcome in Washington at the time of writing?
(a) Patriotic people.
(b) Opinionated people.
(c) Stupid people.
(d) Educated people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Kurt's daughter, Lily?

2. What could a Saab drag at a stoplight?

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

4. When did Eugene Debs die?

5. Whose line of Democratic tradition does Kurt belong to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What advice does Kurt give the woman hoping to have a baby?

3. How does Kurt feel about music?

4. What is Kurt's theory about time?

5. How does Kurt feel about his Uncle Dan?

6. What is the main theme in Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger?" Do you agree?

7. Who is Gil Berman?

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

9. How does Kurt feel about Jesus?

10. Do you think that humans are really too 'cheap and lazy' to save the planet?

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