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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.
(b) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.
(c) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.
(d) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.

2. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?
(a) Nothing would ever be the same.
(b) Poo-tee-weet?
(c) So it goes.
(d) And that's the end.

3. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?
(a) A policeman in Chicago
(b) A taxi-driver in Dresde
(c) The author of a book on massacres
(d) A guard in the prison camp

4. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?
(a) On the front lawn of the house
(b) In a prisoner of war camp
(c) On Tralfamadore
(d) In the backseat of his car

5. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He tells a radio audience that he was kidnapped by aliens.
(b) He goes back to Dresden to see what it looks like now.
(c) He leaves his wife for a movie star named Montana Wildhack.
(d) He writes a book about his war experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Billy in 1968?

2. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?

3. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?

4. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?

5. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?

(see the answer key)

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