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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.
(b) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.
(c) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.
(d) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.

2. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?
(a) So they could take a picture of his
(b) They wanted to play hide and seek with him.
(c) They were angry at him for smiling so much.
(d) They wanted him to help with the gardening.

3. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?
(a) Time
(b) Love
(c) Free will
(d) Charity

4. What name does Roland Weary give to the group of lost soldiers?
(a) The Three Musketeers
(b) The Band of Brothers
(c) The Last Warriors
(d) The Lost Souls

5. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(b) On a matchbook cover by candlelight
(c) In the back of a flatbed truck
(d) Typing on a continuous roll of paper

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days does Billy travel in the railroad cars before arriving at the camp?

2. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?

3. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?

4. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?

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

(see the answer key)

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