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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) An anti-glacier book
(b) An anti-war book
(c) An epic
(d) A memoir

2. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(b) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp
(c) A colonel who lost his entire regiment
(d) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies

3. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?
(a) Philip K. Dick
(b) L. Ron Hubbard
(c) Kurt Vonnegut
(d) Kilgore Trout

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Germans laugh at Billy's coat?

2. What was Edgar Derby's job before he joined the army?

3. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?

4. What play do the English prisoners put on to welcome the Americans?

5. How long had the British soldiers been prisoners of war?

(see the answer key)

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