From John Ashbery’s “One Hundred Multiple-Choice Questions”:
- Thinking can help to solve problems because
- a) problems exist only in the mind
- b) problems must be taken seriously
- c) mind triumphs over matter
- d) not to think would be to avoid the problem
- e) no problem can be completely solved anyway
- f) it is our duty to think our way out of problems
Can’t argue with that. Or this:
- Religious freedom means
- a) that God does not exist
- b) that God is dead
- c) that the individual is free to worship God as he chooses
- d) that we need attend church only on Sundays
- e) that we can do as we please
- f) that there is no life after death
Finally,
- “E=mc squared” alludes to
- a) the personality quotient
- b) the battle between the sexes
- c) the generation gap
- d) Heidi
- f) The Little Foxes
- g) all of the preceding
Give up? The correct answers are below.
— DL
Correct answers: 1) g, 6) simon says, 68) A mazurka is a Polish dance.
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