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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Billy in 1968?
(a) He is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery.
(b) His father gets into a car accident and nearly dies.
(c) He survives a plane crash and his wife dies.
(d) His children try to get him committed to a mental ward.

2. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?
(a) So it goes.
(b) No one really dies.
(c) That's a pity.
(d) Rejoice!

3. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(b) He settles down and gets married.
(c) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(d) He stops drinking and becomes sober.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?

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

3. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?

4. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?

5. When does Billy make his first public speech?

(see the answer key)

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