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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Where they are and how they got there.
(b) How his life will end.
(c) What life on Trafalmadore is like.
(d) Where his mother is.

2. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?
(a) If you could go white water rafting on the river
(b) How many species living in the canyon had gone extinct
(c) If many people commit suicide by jumping into the canyon
(d) If there were any good hotels inside the canyon itself

3. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?
(a) The coat Billy wore in the POW camp
(b) It was an heirloom in Billy's family
(c) Billy found it in Dresden
(d) Her father gave it to Billy

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Roland Weary blame for his death?

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

3. Who becomes the Head American?

4. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?

5. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?

(see the answer key)

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