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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which college did Vonnegut attend?
(a) Stanford University
(b) The University of Dresden
(c) Cornell University
(d) The University of Chicago

4. This took place in:
(a) Rome
(b) Paris
(c) Dresden
(d) Munich

5. What are the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Aliens that see in four dimensions.
(b) A group of anti-war activists.
(c) People who become Billy's fan club.
(d) A secret society of optometrists.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?

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

3. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?

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

5. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?

(see the answer key)

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