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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unique about the coat Billy Pilgrim gets from the Germans?
(a) It is the only one made from blue fabric.
(b) It has silver buttons on the collar and cuffs.
(c) It was made to be worn by a woman.
(d) It's the only coat from a civilian.

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

3. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?
(a) Working in a restaurant.
(b) He worked as a police reporter.
(c) He was a factory worker.
(d) He was a chaplain's assistant.

4. What play do the English prisoners put on to welcome the Americans?
(a) Cinderella
(b) Macbeth
(c) Hamlet
(d) The Glass Menagerie

5. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?
(a) A palace
(b) Heaven
(c) A movie set
(d) A brothel

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?

2. Where does Billy time travel to after the Carlbad Caverns?

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

4. What are the Tralfamadorans?

5. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?

(see the answer key)

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