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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?
(a) He goes back to the night when he was kidnapped.
(b) He recalls nearly drowning in the swimming pool.
(c) He becomes an infant being washed by his mother.
(d) He returns to the Lion's Club dinner in 1957.

2. What happens to Billy in 1968?
(a) His children try to get him committed to a mental ward.
(b) He survives a plane crash and his wife dies.
(c) His father gets into a car accident and nearly dies.
(d) He is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery.

3. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?
(a) The letter from his mother
(b) His rifle and bayonet
(c) A picture of his girlfriend
(d) A two-inch pencil stub

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

5. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?
(a) He was mimicking one of the other guards.
(b) He was trying to escape from the POW camp.
(c) He was making fun of Billy Pilgrim.
(d) He said something that the German did not like.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?

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

3. What does his father notice about Vonnegut's books?

4. What are the Tralfamadorans?

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

(see the answer key)

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