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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?
(a) A two-inch pencil stub
(b) His rifle and bayonet
(c) A picture of his girlfriend
(d) The letter from his mother

2. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?
(a) How Green Was My Valley
(b) The Valley of the Dolls
(c) The Sorrow and the Pity
(d) The Dollhouse Murders

3. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) Flying over the battlefield
(b) That he is a giraffe
(c) Swimming in the Hudson River
(d) Marching next to Roland Weary

4. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies
(b) A colonel who lost his entire regiment
(c) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp
(d) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car

5. What surprised the British officers most about the American prisoners?
(a) How tired they looked
(b) How ill-dressed they were
(c) How young they were
(d) How nice they were

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?

2. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?

3. Who, according to Campbell, would the Americans be fighting if they joined him?

4. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?

5. Why do the Germans laugh at Billy's coat?

(see the answer key)

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