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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?
(a) A naked woman and a Shetland pony
(b) His mother and his sister
(c) His car and his rifle
(d) His best friends back in the United States

2. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?
(a) He becomes ill with appendicitis.
(b) His mother suffers a relapse in the hospital.
(c) He asks to visit his wife before going overseas.
(d) His father dies in a hunting accident.

3. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?
(a) He was a factory worker.
(b) He worked as a police reporter.
(c) Working in a restaurant.
(d) He was a chaplain's assistant.

4. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.
(b) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.
(c) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.
(d) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Tralfamadorans?

2. What does Barbara think is wrong with Billy when she finds him in his cold house?

3. What does his father notice about Vonnegut's books?

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

5. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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