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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?
(a) They ask him about Earth culture.
(b) They put him on display in a zoo.
(c) They use him to test medicines.
(d) They perform intelligence tests on him.

2. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?
(a) Bernard O'Hare
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) The hobo
(d) Paul Lazzaro

3. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?
(a) A boyscout troop hiking in the woods
(b) A ranger from a nearby station
(c) Two Austrian ski instructors
(d) The barbershop quartet

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

5. Where does Billy time travel to after the Carlbad Caverns?
(a) He returns to the POW camp.
(b) He travels to the moment of his death.
(c) He returns to basic training.
(d) He travels to another family vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Tralfamadorans view every creature and plant in the universe?

2. What work does Billy do as a prisoner of war?

3. How does Roland Weary die?

4. What is the source of the "animal magnetism" that Billy feels in the hospital?

5. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?

(see the answer key)

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