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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 his father notice about Vonnegut's books?
(a) None of them have been published.
(b) None of them have villains.
(c) They are all about the war.
(d) Vonnegut has burned every one of them.

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

3. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(b) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(c) He does not like fighting.
(d) He has become

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

5. One of Kurt Vonnegut's war buddies was killed for. . .
(a) breaking an egg.
(b) taking a teapot.
(c) attacking a guard.
(d) stealing food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

2. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

3. What happens to Billy in 1968?

4. What did Vonnegut study in college?

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

(see the answer key)

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