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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .
(a) than died in the Concentration Camps.
(b) have died from cancer in the last two years.
(c) during the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
(d) have ever died in automobile accidents.

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

4. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?
(a) In a deserted zoo
(b) In a baby food factory
(c) In a slaughterhouse
(d) In an empty school

5. Who catches Billy at his crime?
(a) Werner Gluck
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Paul Lazzaro
(d) A German refugee

Short Answer Questions

1. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?

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

3. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?

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

5. What does the Tralfamadoran compare a moment in time to?

(see the answer key)

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