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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Paul Lazzaro most proud of?
(a) He never told a lie to another.
(b) He never hurt an innocent bystander.
(c) He never stole anything in his life.
(d) He was able to fight as a boxer.

2. 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.

3. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.
(b) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.
(c) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(d) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.

4. What did the Polish song remind Billy about?
(a) The accent of the Polish prisoners of war
(b) How much he misses being with his wife
(c) A vacation he took once to Poland
(d) Seeing a Polish farm laborer hung in Dresden

5. What does Barbara think is wrong with Billy when she finds him in his cold house?
(a) She thinks he is distracted by grief.
(b) She thinks he is getting senile.
(c) She thinks he got pneumonia.
(d) She thinks he is too proud to ask for money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?

2. What does the Tralfamadoran compare a moment in time to?

3. What was Mackay's opinion about the Children's Crusade?

4. According to this book, by the late nineteen seventies, the United States of America has been. . .

5. What does Billy's doctor advise him to do every day?

(see the answer key)

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