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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?
(a) To the mayor's house in the nearest village
(b) To a stone cottage filled with other prisoners
(c) To a local brewery where they were fed sausages
(d) To the town jail where they were able to wash up

3. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?
(a) Kurt Vonnegut
(b) Bernard O'Hare
(c) Wild Bob
(d) Roland Weary

4. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.
(b) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.
(c) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(d) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.

5. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) She started to sing and dance.
(b) She turned into a pillar of salt.
(c) She suddenly fell down dead.
(d) She began to weep uncontrollably.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is "Princess?"

3. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?

4. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?

5. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?

(see the answer key)

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