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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Roland Weary die?
(a) By shooting himself in the head
(b) Killed by the other prisoners
(c) Killed by a German guard
(d) From gangrene in his feet

2. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?
(a) A palace
(b) A movie set
(c) A brothel
(d) Heaven

3. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?
(a) How many species living in the canyon had gone extinct
(b) If you could go white water rafting on the river
(c) If there were any good hotels inside the canyon itself
(d) If many people commit suicide by jumping into the canyon

4. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?
(a) Several people from the nearby town
(b) More prisoners coming into camp
(c) The hobo's body in the weeds
(d) The American army advancing

5. Who is "Princess?"
(a) A German shepherd dog
(b) The woman in Roland's picture
(c) Roland Weary's wife
(d) Billy's first girlfriend

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

2. What did Vonnegut think Dresden looked like?

3. What does Billy see in the bookstore in Times Square?

4. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?

5. What does Billy do the night before his daughter's wedding?

(see the answer key)

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