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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?
(a) The author of a book on massacres
(b) A taxi-driver in Dresde
(c) A policeman in Chicago
(d) A guard in the prison camp

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

3. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?
(a) A patrol of German soldiers
(b) American Army Scouts
(c) The Tralfamadorans
(d) Bernard O'Hare

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

5. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?
(a) The railroad car starts moving too fast to sleep.
(b) Someone in the darkness starts screaming loudly.
(c) The other soldiers tell him to go lie down someplace else.
(d) The guards start searching through the railroad car.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?

3. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?

4. By the time they reach Luxembourg, Roland Weary is reduced to wearing. . .

5. Why are the American prisoners given showers?

(see the answer key)

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