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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He does not like fighting.
(b) He has become
(c) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(d) He is an optometrist who is blind.

2. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?
(a) To a local brewery where they were fed sausages
(b) To the town jail where they were able to wash up
(c) To a stone cottage filled with other prisoners
(d) To the mayor's house in the nearest village

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

4. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?
(a) The author of a book on massacres
(b) A guard in the prison camp
(c) A policeman in Chicago
(d) A taxi-driver in Dresde

5. What is the first thing both the Germans and the Tralfamadorans have Billy do?
(a) Promise not to run away
(b) Take off his clothes
(c) Sit in a corner by himself
(d) Write a letter to his family

6. This took place in:
(a) Dresden
(b) Rome
(c) Munich
(d) Paris

7. What do humans look like to the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Millipedes
(b) Chimpanzees
(c) Butterflies
(d) Pale worms

8. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.
(b) It reminds him of the Danube River.
(c) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(d) They want to go swimming in the water.

9. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?
(a) Philip K. Dick
(b) Kilgore Trout
(c) L. Ron Hubbard
(d) Kurt Vonnegut

10. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?
(a) They were angry at him for smiling so much.
(b) They wanted to play hide and seek with him.
(c) So they could take a picture of his
(d) They wanted him to help with the gardening.

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

12. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) A colonel who lost his entire regiment
(b) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies
(c) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(d) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp

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

14. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(b) To his high school class in 1940
(c) In the POW camp in 1944
(d) On the radio in 1968

15. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?
(a) How Green Was My Valley
(b) The Dollhouse Murders
(c) The Valley of the Dolls
(d) The Sorrow and the Pity

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the war movie Billy watches?

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

3. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?

4. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:

5. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?

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