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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bertram Rumfoord tell Lily about Billy?
(a) That Billy should be a private room
(b) That Billy would be better off dead
(c) That Billy used to be famous
(d) That Billy was a private in the army

2. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?
(a) So they could take a picture of his
(b) They wanted him to help with the gardening.
(c) They were angry at him for smiling so much.
(d) They wanted to play hide and seek with him.

3. What did Vonnegut think Dresden looked like?
(a) New York
(b) Oz
(c) Heaven
(d) Indianapolis

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By the time they reach Luxembourg, Roland Weary is reduced to wearing. . .

2. What are the Tralfamadorans?

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

4. Who used to live in the room where Billy stays?

5. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?

(see the answer key)

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