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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which college did Vonnegut attend?
(a) Cornell University
(b) Stanford University
(c) The University of Dresden
(d) The University of Chicago

2. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?
(a) Paul Lazzaro
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) The hobo
(d) Bernard O'Hare

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

4. What is Billy's position in the war?
(a) Corporal in Support Services
(b) Private in the Infantry
(c) Second lieutenant
(d) Chaplain's assistant

5. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?
(a) He was on a sail boat that capsized during a storm.
(b) He took lessons from a girl in a blue swimming suit.
(c) He used to go swimming with other boys in a local creek.
(d) His father threw him into the deep end of a swimming pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?

2. What did Vonnegut study in college?

3. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .

4. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?

5. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?

(see the answer key)

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