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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mackay's opinion about the Children's Crusade?
(a) It was a glorious event that should be celebrated.
(b) It was a terrible betrayal of the families involved.
(c) It was a bitter waste, but ultimately positive.
(d) It was only slightly worse than grown-up crusades.

2. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?
(a) After dinner in 1957
(b) On a night in 1967
(c) During the march in 1944
(d) One morning in 1945

3. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(b) The young people in the Children's Crusade
(c) Water flowing downhill into a large river
(d) Ants moving their anthill to a new location

4. Who guards Billy and Edgar Derby as they work in the slaughterhouse?
(a) Two blonde German soldiers
(b) An old man with one leg
(c) Paul Lazzaro
(d) A sixteen-year-old boy

5. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?
(a) Free will
(b) Charity
(c) Time
(d) Love

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?

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

3. What is the first thing both the Germans and the Tralfamadorans have Billy do?

4. What was it about the Grand Canyon that scared Billy?

5. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

(see the answer key)

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