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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does his father notice about Vonnegut's books?
(a) Vonnegut has burned every one of them.
(b) None of them have been published.
(c) None of them have villains.
(d) They are all about the war.

3. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?
(a) Bernard O'Hare
(b) The Tralfamadorans
(c) A patrol of German soldiers
(d) American Army Scouts

4. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?
(a) A picture of his girlfriend
(b) His rifle and bayonet
(c) A two-inch pencil stub
(d) The letter from his mother

5. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?
(a) He worked as a police reporter.
(b) He was a chaplain's assistant.
(c) Working in a restaurant.
(d) He was a factory worker.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?

2. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?

3. What happens to Billy in 1968?

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

5. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?

(see the answer key)

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