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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) The Destruction of Dresden
(b) The Children's Crusade
(c) So It Goes
(d) Slaughterhouse-Five

4. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?
(a) A picture of his girlfriend
(b) His rifle and bayonet
(c) The letter from his mother
(d) A two-inch pencil stub

5. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) He ignores her when she asks questions.
(b) She thinks he is going to glorify soldiers in war.
(c) He refuses to drink the tea she offers.
(d) He gets her husband drunk in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?

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

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