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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?
(a) On Tralfamadore
(b) In a prisoner of war camp
(c) On the front lawn of the house
(d) In the backseat of his car

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

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

4. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?
(a) No one really dies.
(b) Rejoice!
(c) So it goes.
(d) That's a pity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One of Kurt Vonnegut's war buddies was killed for. . .

2. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?

3. What did Vonnegut study in college?

4. What are the Tralfamadorans?

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

(see the answer key)

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