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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) have ever died in automobile accidents.
(c) than died in the Concentration Camps.
(d) have died from cancer in the last two years.

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

3. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?
(a) One morning in 1945
(b) During the march in 1944
(c) After dinner in 1957
(d) On a night in 1967

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

5. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) The young people in the Children's Crusade
(b) Ants moving their anthill to a new location
(c) Water flowing downhill into a large river
(d) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is "Princess?"

4. When does Billy make his first public speech?

5. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

(see the answer key)

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