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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name does Roland Weary give to the group of lost soldiers?
(a) The Band of Brothers
(b) The Lost Souls
(c) The Last Warriors
(d) The Three Musketeers

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

3. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?
(a) As a gift that should be treasured like gold.
(b) Like a river that flows in one direction only.
(c) As permanent fixtures, like the Rocky Mountains.
(d) It's a nuisance; time goes too slowly.

4. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) An anti-war book
(b) A memoir
(c) An anti-glacier book
(d) An epic

5. What is Billy's position in the war?
(a) Private in the Infantry
(b) Corporal in Support Services
(c) Second lieutenant
(d) Chaplain's assistant

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?

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

3. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?

4. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?

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

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