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

2. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(b) In the POW camp in 1944
(c) On the radio in 1968
(d) To his high school class in 1940

3. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?
(a) He was a factory worker.
(b) Working in a restaurant.
(c) He was a chaplain's assistant.
(d) He worked as a police reporter.

4. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) In the back of a flatbed truck
(b) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(c) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(d) On a matchbook cover by candlelight

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?

2. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?

3. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:

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

5. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

(see the answer key)

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