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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 the Head Englishman give the American soldiers in the theater?
(a) A radio tuned to an English station
(b) Boxes of pears and apples
(c) A lecture on hygiene
(d) A map of the prison camp

2. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.
(b) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.
(c) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(d) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.

3. Why does the Head Englishman envy the Americans?
(a) The German guards like the Americans better.
(b) They are going to be exchanged soon and go home.
(c) They are young and will forget war sooner.
(d) They are moving out from the camp to Dresden.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?

2. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?

3. Whom else board the plane

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

5. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?

(see the answer key)

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