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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does his father notice about Vonnegut's books?
(a) None of them have villains.
(b) Vonnegut has burned every one of them.
(c) They are all about the war.
(d) None of them have been published.

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

3. What does Billy see in the Carlsbad Caverns when the lights are switched off?
(a) The silhouette of the Ranger's hat
(b) His father's pocket watch glowing in the dark
(c) About a million bats falling out of an opening
(d) Nothing; he is left in total darkness

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

5. What play do the English prisoners put on to welcome the Americans?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Hamlet
(c) Cinderella
(d) The Glass Menagerie

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?

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

5. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?

(see the answer key)

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