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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?
(a) On the front lawn of the house
(b) In a prisoner of war camp
(c) On Tralfamadore
(d) In the backseat of his car

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?

2. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?

3. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?

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

5. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?

(see the answer key)

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