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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?
(a) He cheats on his wife.
(b) He calls up old girlfriends.
(c) He yells at his best friend.
(d) He passes out on the living room rug.

2. How does Roland Weary die?
(a) Killed by the other prisoners
(b) By shooting himself in the head
(c) From gangrene in his feet
(d) Killed by a German guard

3. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?
(a) That he has been in worse situations than this.
(b) That he knows him from somewhere.
(c) That he's been hungry for weeks.
(d) The secrets of Trafalmadore.

4. What is unusual about the war movie Billy watches?
(a) It stars Roland Weary as the hero of the story.
(b) The characters in the movie start talking to Billy.
(c) It is about Billy's own experiences in the war.
(d) It plays backwards and then forwards again.

5. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?
(a) In a baby food factory
(b) In a deserted zoo
(c) In a slaughterhouse
(d) In an empty school

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

2. What did Vonnegut study in college?

3. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?

4. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?

5. How many days does Billy travel in the railroad cars before arriving at the camp?

(see the answer key)

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