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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .
(a) have ever died in automobile accidents.
(b) than died in the Concentration Camps.
(c) during the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
(d) have died from cancer in the last two years.

2. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?
(a) The coat Billy wore in the POW camp
(b) Her father gave it to Billy
(c) Billy found it in Dresden
(d) It was an heirloom in Billy's family

3. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) An anti-war book
(b) An epic
(c) An anti-glacier book
(d) A memoir

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?

2. In addition to being Rumfoord's fifth wife, Lily is also. . .

3. Where does Billy time travel to while he is on the airplane?

4. What is Kilgore Trout doing when Billy first meets him?

5. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?

(see the answer key)

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