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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 Paul Lazzaro most proud of?
(a) He was able to fight as a boxer.
(b) He never told a lie to another.
(c) He never stole anything in his life.
(d) He never hurt an innocent bystander.

2. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?
(a) That they are excusable if done for a good reason.
(b) Not to be involved in them, or take glee from them.
(c) That they are a necessary part of human history.
(d) To run away from them if at all possible.

3. According to this book, by the late nineteen seventies, the United States of America has been. . .
(a) declared the last super power.
(b) turned into a huge shopping mall.
(c) divided into 20 smaller countries.
(d) conquered by the Chinese.

4. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?
(a) Two Austrian ski instructors
(b) A boyscout troop hiking in the woods
(c) The barbershop quartet
(d) A ranger from a nearby station

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?

2. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?

3. How many days does Billy travel in the railroad cars before arriving at the camp?

4. What injury does Billy suffer from the airplane crash?

5. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?

(see the answer key)

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