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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kurt feel about the woman behind the counter?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He wants her to smile more.
(c) He hates her.
(d) He wishes she would move faster.

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

3. How did Albert Camus die?
(a) Train wreck.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Automobile accident.

4. What does Kurt think Shakespeare did not believe in?
(a) Heaven or Hell.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Himself.
(d) Absolute truth.

5. What is Kurt's limit for alcoholic drinks?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

6. Who built the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine?
(a) Karl Benz.
(b) Ferdinand Redtenbacher.
(c) Wilhelm Maybach.
(d) Gottlieb Daimler.

7. When were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1907.

8. When did the first crack appear between English and German Americans?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) World War II.
(c) When the Germans first arrived.
(d) The First World War.

9. What is not an example of a 'crazy-making' game happening today?
(a) Liberalism.
(b) Love.
(c) Girl's basketball.
(d) Religion.

10. What does the woman behind the counter at the newsstand have between her eyes?
(a) A mole.
(b) A scar.
(c) A jewel.
(d) A pimple.

11. What was Ned Ludd's line of work?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Typing.
(c) Masonry.
(d) Textiles.

12. What did the Victorians not discuss?
(a) Sex.
(b) Class.
(c) Technology.
(d) Religion.

13. What ethnic group did Kurt's friend in Nigeria belong to?
(a) Yoruba.
(b) Hutu.
(c) Ibo.
(d) Hausa.

14. Who said that 'religion is the opium of the people?'
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Mao Zedong.
(c) Joseph Stalin.
(d) Adolph Hitler.

15. What was the name of Kurt's high school?
(a) Hilltop High School.
(b) Shortridge High School.
(c) Cliffton High School.
(d) Brock High School.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kurt used to 'laugh his head off' at?

2. Where does the typist live?

3. What will Kurt tell readers from now on?

4. According to Kurt, what is a couple really saying to each other when they have an argument?

5. Who made Kurt's first car?

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