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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Billy's position in the war?
(a) Corporal in Support Services
(b) Private in the Infantry
(c) Second lieutenant
(d) Chaplain's assistant

2. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?
(a) Poo-tee-weet?
(b) Nothing would ever be the same.
(c) So it goes.
(d) And that's the end.

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

4. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?
(a) Roland Weary
(b) Kurt Vonnegut
(c) Bernard O'Hare
(d) Wild Bob

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

Short Answer Questions

1. This took place in:

2. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?

3. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?

4. What did Vonnegut study in college?

5. One of Kurt Vonnegut's war buddies was killed for. . .

(see the answer key)

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