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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?
(a) His car and his rifle
(b) A naked woman and a Shetland pony
(c) His mother and his sister
(d) His best friends back in the United States

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

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

4. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) A colonel who lost his entire regiment
(b) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(c) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies
(d) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Billy in 1968?

2. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?

3. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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