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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?
(a) And that's the end.
(b) Nothing would ever be the same.
(c) So it goes.
(d) Poo-tee-weet?

3. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) She started to sing and dance.
(b) She suddenly fell down dead.
(c) She turned into a pillar of salt.
(d) She began to weep uncontrollably.

4. What is unusual about the war movie Billy watches?
(a) It is about Billy's own experiences in the war.
(b) It plays backwards and then forwards again.
(c) It stars Roland Weary as the hero of the story.
(d) The characters in the movie start talking to Billy.

5. Who was in the camp hospital with Billy when he woke up?
(a) No one
(b) Edgar Derby and Paul Lazzaro
(c) Roland Weary and Edgar Derby
(d) A British Officer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?

3. What complaint is Billy's doctor trying to relieve?

4. Whom else board the plane

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

(see the answer key)

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