Armageddon in Retrospect Quotes

Question 1

The speech he wrote?

Answer 1

Delivered by his son at Cloves Hall, Indianapolis. April 27, 2007

Question 2

Speech - who was he suing?

Answer 2

‘I am suing the manufacturer of Pall Mall cigarettes, because their product didn’t kill me’

Question 3

Speech - who he quotes?

Answer 3

He quotes Socrates - ‘Death is just one more night’

Question 4

Speech - how we should act?

Answer 4

‘And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? […] Jokes help a lot’

Question 5

Name of short story set in Dresden?

Answer 5

Guns before butter
Refers to the debates over whether the government should spend money on the military or spend it on domestic programs

Question 6

Guns before butter - where is it set?

Answer 6

‘amid the smashed masonry and timbers of Dresden, Germany’

Question 7

Guns before butter - what the prisoner of war eats?

Answer 7

Kniptash ‘emerged dirty and dispirited, gnawing experimentally at a green crayon’

Question 8

Short story set in Czechoslavakia?

Answer 8

The Commandant’s Desk

Question 9

The Commandant’s Desk - survivor’s guilt?

Answer 9

dialogue - ‘I feel almost as though being alive were something to be ashamed of’

Question 10

The Commandant’s Desk - the effect of war on people?

Answer 10

‘nothing makes any sense, though - nothing seems to help’