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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 car and his rifle
(c) His mother and his sister
(d) His best friends back in the United States

2. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(b) He does not like fighting.
(c) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(d) He has become

3. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .
(a) during the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
(b) than died in the Concentration Camps.
(c) have died from cancer in the last two years.
(d) have ever died in automobile accidents.

4. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?
(a) The author of a book on massacres
(b) A policeman in Chicago
(c) A taxi-driver in Dresde
(d) A guard in the prison camp

5. What did Vonnegut study in college?
(a) Political science
(b) Creative Writing
(c) Anthropology
(d) Philosophy

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Mackay's opinion about the Children's Crusade?

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

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

4. This took place in:

5. What are the Tralfamadorans?

(see the answer key)

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