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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?
(a) Nothing would ever be the same.
(b) Poo-tee-weet?
(c) So it goes.
(d) And that's the end.

5. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He leaves his wife for a movie star named Montana Wildhack.
(b) He goes back to Dresden to see what it looks like now.
(c) He writes a book about his war experiences.
(d) He tells a radio audience that he was kidnapped by aliens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?

2. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?

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

4. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?

5. What is Billy's position in the war?

(see the answer key)

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