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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?
(a) Cinderella
(b) Hamlet
(c) Sleeping Beauty
(d) The Trojan War

2. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.
(b) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(c) They want to go swimming in the water.
(d) It reminds him of the Danube River.

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

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

5. What does Billy do the night before his daughter's wedding?
(a) He talks to his old friend Bernard O'Hare.
(b) He takes a nap while watching televsision.
(c) He waits for the aliens to kidnap him.
(d) He calls an old girlfriend on the phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?

2. What do Billy, Werner, and Edgar find instead of a kitchen?

3. Where does Billy time travel to while he is on the airplane?

4. Why did the Englishman say that Dresden would never be bombed?

5. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?

(see the answer key)

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