Write absurdist stories long enough, and...

...your life might start to resemble one.

Such is the case of Daniel Pinkwater and the Pineapple Question:

I was caught up in the brouhaha that arose from an excerpt from a book of mine, edited out of any resemblance to what I wrote, and included in what was described to me as a “high stakes” test administered to all the eighth-graders in New York. It’s a nonsense story, funny, that one character tells to another in my novel, “Borgel.”

On the test, the story makes even less sense, (less sense than nonsense? Yes! I wouldn’t have thought it was possible), and then . . . get ready . . . there are multiple choice questions the kids are supposed to answer.