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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp
(b) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(c) A colonel who lost his entire regiment
(d) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies

2. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) In the POW camp in 1944
(b) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(c) To his high school class in 1940
(d) On the radio in 1968

3. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(b) He does not like fighting.
(c) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(d) He has become

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

5. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He stops drinking and becomes sober.
(b) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(c) He settles down and gets married.
(d) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Billy's position in the war?

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

3. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

4. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?

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

(see the answer key)

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