John Ashbery's Multiple Choice Questions

From John Ashbery's "One Hundred Multiple-Choice Questions":

1. Thinking can help to solve problems because
2. a) problems exist only in the mind
3. b) problems must be taken seriously
4. c) mind triumphs over matter
5. d) not to think would be to avoid the problem
6. e) no problem can be completely solved anyway
7. f) it is our duty to think our way out of problems

Can't argue with that. Or this:

6. Religious freedom means
7. a) that God does not exist
8. b) that God is dead
9. c) that the individual is free to worship God as he chooses
10. d) that we need attend church only on Sundays
11. e) that we can do as we please
12. f) that there is no life after death

Finally,

68. "E=mc squared" alludes to
69. a) the personality quotient
70. b) the battle between the sexes
71. c) the generation gap
72. d) Heidi
73. f) The Little Foxes
74. 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.

Comments

[Bobby Potato]

(1) The equation cannot be refuted without allowing for an unknown.
(2) Pee Wee, a shortstop, was six feet tall.
(3) Not a Mazda, Mazilli.

[MCL]

1 I will agree with this premise or I will disagree with this premise
2 Everyone is a child-care worker
3. Knee high quicksand