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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?
(a) That his business was going bankrupt
(b) That the plane was going to crash
(c) That his wife was planning to leave him
(d) That he would never return home

3. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?
(a) The Sorrow and the Pity
(b) How Green Was My Valley
(c) The Valley of the Dolls
(d) The Dollhouse Murders

4. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(b) In the back of a flatbed truck
(c) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(d) On a matchbook cover by candlelight

5. What does Billy do the night before his daughter's wedding?
(a) He waits for the aliens to kidnap him.
(b) He calls an old girlfriend on the phone.
(c) He talks to his old friend Bernard O'Hare.
(d) He takes a nap while watching televsision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

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

3. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?

4. What is Paul Lazzaro most proud of?

5. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?

(see the answer key)

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