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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?
(a) So it goes.
(b) Rejoice!
(c) That's a pity.
(d) No one really dies.

2. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?
(a) What life on Trafalmadore is like.
(b) Where they are and how they got there.
(c) How his life will end.
(d) Where his mother is.

3. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?
(a) How many species living in the canyon had gone extinct
(b) If many people commit suicide by jumping into the canyon
(c) If you could go white water rafting on the river
(d) If there were any good hotels inside the canyon itself

4. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?
(a) He said something that the German did not like.
(b) He was making fun of Billy Pilgrim.
(c) He was mimicking one of the other guards.
(d) He was trying to escape from the POW camp.

5. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?
(a) To the mayor's house in the nearest village
(b) To a local brewery where they were fed sausages
(c) To a stone cottage filled with other prisoners
(d) To the town jail where they were able to wash up

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?

4. What did Vonnegut think Dresden looked like?

5. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?

(see the answer key)

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