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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kilgore Trout doing when Billy first meets him?
(a) Complaining about his book sales
(b) Eating lunch at a greasy coffee shop
(c) Yelling at kids to sell newspapers
(d) Taking notes for a new novel

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

3. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?
(a) The pallbearers at the funeral for is father
(b) The ushers at his wedding eighteen years earlier
(c) The four guards who survived the bombing in Dresden
(d) The barbershop quartet who died in the airplane crash

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

5. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?
(a) On Tralfamadore
(b) In the backseat of his car
(c) On the front lawn of the house
(d) In a prisoner of war camp

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Wild Bob?

3. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?

4. Why are the American prisoners given showers?

5. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?

(see the answer key)

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