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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. How old was the woman?
(a) 34.
(b) 54.
(c) 45.
(d) 43.

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

3. Who is Kurt's hero?
(a) Ignaz Semmelweis.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Louis Pasteur.
(d) Johann Klein.

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

5. According to tabloids, how long have alien anthropologists been studying the human race?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Ten centuries.
(c) Ten generations.
(d) Ten minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Kurt, what occupied country has America become like?

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

3. Who is Joel Bleifuss?

4. How old is Kurt's house in Sagaponack, Long Island?

5. What can Kurt not do well now that he is 82?

Short Essay Questions

1. What debate does Kurt have with the man who does not give his address?

2. What have the PPs done to the country?

3. Who is Gil Berman?

4. What is Kurt's theory about time?

5. Why does Kurt think the suicide rate of slave owners was higher than the suicide rate of slaves?

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

7. What does Kurt say about guessing?

8. Who is Kurt's hero?

9. What does Kurt say the book is about?

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

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