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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) Swimming in the Hudson River
(b) That he is a giraffe
(c) Flying over the battlefield
(d) Marching next to Roland Weary

2. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?
(a) Waiting for his wife to wake up and get dressed
(b) In a mental ward, three years after the war
(c) Sitting on his couch, watching a war movie
(d) Back in the Carlsbad Caverns, in the dark

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

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

5. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) They want to go swimming in the water.
(b) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.
(c) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(d) It reminds him of the Danube River.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?

2. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?

3. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

4. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?

5. What are the Tralfamadorans?

(see the answer key)

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