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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(b) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(c) In the back of a flatbed truck
(d) On a matchbook cover by candlelight

3. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?
(a) He yells at his best friend.
(b) He passes out on the living room rug.
(c) He cheats on his wife.
(d) He calls up old girlfriends.

4. What time of year is it when the war ends?
(a) Winter
(b) Springtime
(c) Summer
(d) Late Fall

5. Who used to live in the room where Billy stays?
(a) George Jean Nathan
(b) Truman Capote
(c) Dorothy Parker
(d) Alexander Woolcott

Short Answer Questions

1. Who guards Billy and Edgar Derby as they work in the slaughterhouse?

2. What is the source of the "animal magnetism" that Billy feels in the hospital?

3. This took place in:

4. One of Kurt Vonnegut's war buddies was killed for. . .

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

(see the answer key)

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