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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?
(a) For propaganda purposes
(b) They like the Americans
(c) For official records
(d) They are making postcards

2. What does the Tralfamadoran compare a moment in time to?
(a) A sheet of ice
(b) The reflection in a mirror
(c) A bug trapped in amber
(d) A flickering flame

3. What is the first thing both the Germans and the Tralfamadorans have Billy do?
(a) Promise not to run away
(b) Write a letter to his family
(c) Take off his clothes
(d) Sit in a corner by himself

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

5. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?
(a) To run away from them if at all possible.
(b) That they are excusable if done for a good reason.
(c) Not to be involved in them, or take glee from them.
(d) That they are a necessary part of human history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Tralfamadorans?

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

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

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

5. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?

(see the answer key)

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