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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?
(a) In a deserted zoo
(b) In an empty school
(c) In a slaughterhouse
(d) In a baby food factory

2. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) It reminds him of the Danube River.
(b) They want to go swimming in the water.
(c) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(d) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.

3. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He stops drinking and becomes sober.
(b) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(c) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(d) He settles down and gets married.

4. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?
(a) He yells at his best friend.
(b) He passes out on the living room rug.
(c) He cheats on his wife.
(d) He calls up old girlfriends.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?

3. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?

4. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .

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

(see the answer key)

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