(CNN) -- The original Borders in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was famed for a quiz it gave to prospective employees. Here's a sampling of the questions (answers below).
In what subject area would you look for books by or about the following people:
1. Edvard Munch
2. Claude Levi-Strauss
3. Jean Piaget
4. Louis Sullivan
5. Garry Trudeau
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Who wrote the following works?
6. "The Magic Mountain"
7. "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
8. "Critique of Pure Reason"
9. "Death of a Salesman"
10. "The Golden Bough"
11. What is the selling price of a book if the list price is $5.00 and we give a 10 percent discount?
12. Michigan sales tax is 4%. What is the tax on a $9.00 sale?
ANSWERS:
1. Art (painting)
2. Anthropology
3. (Developmental) Psychology
4. Architecture
5. Cartooning/Comics
6. Thomas Mann
7. Friedrich Nietzsche (Richard Strauss later composed a musical work of the same title)
8. Immanuel Kant
9. Arthur Miller
10. Sir James Frazer
11. $4.50
12. $0.36
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