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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) She turned into a pillar of salt.
(b) She suddenly fell down dead.
(c) She began to weep uncontrollably.
(d) She started to sing and dance.

2. What happens to Billy in 1968?
(a) His children try to get him committed to a mental ward.
(b) His father gets into a car accident and nearly dies.
(c) He is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery.
(d) He survives a plane crash and his wife dies.

3. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?
(a) Like a river that flows in one direction only.
(b) As a gift that should be treasured like gold.
(c) As permanent fixtures, like the Rocky Mountains.
(d) It's a nuisance; time goes too slowly.

4. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?
(a) That they are excusable if done for a good reason.
(b) Not to be involved in them, or take glee from them.
(c) That they are a necessary part of human history.
(d) To run away from them if at all possible.

5. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?
(a) Bernard O'Hare
(b) A patrol of German soldiers
(c) American Army Scouts
(d) The Tralfamadorans

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?

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

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

4. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

5. One of Kurt Vonnegut's war buddies was killed for. . .

(see the answer key)

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