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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?
(a) The pallbearers at the funeral for is father
(b) The ushers at his wedding eighteen years earlier
(c) The barbershop quartet who died in the airplane crash
(d) The four guards who survived the bombing in Dresden

2. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?
(a) Heartburn
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Sleepiness
(d) Explosions

3. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?
(a) The other soldiers tell him to go lie down someplace else.
(b) Someone in the darkness starts screaming loudly.
(c) The guards start searching through the railroad car.
(d) The railroad car starts moving too fast to sleep.

4. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?
(a) They ask him politely.
(b) They poke him with long sticks.
(c) They threaten him with death.
(d) They shoot a ray at him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?

2. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?

3. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:

4. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?

5. Who does Roland Weary blame for his death?

(see the answer key)

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