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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?
(a) Spits on his shoulder
(b) Takes away his uniform
(c) Mocks his accent
(d) Beats him with a rifle

2. Why is Billy taken to the hospital during the play?
(a) He starts throwing up.
(b) He starts coughing up blood.
(c) He faints and they realize he is feverish.
(d) He starts laughing and cannot stop.

3. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?
(a) They put him on display in a zoo.
(b) They perform intelligence tests on him.
(c) They use him to test medicines.
(d) They ask him about Earth culture.

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

5. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) Slaughterhouse-Five
(b) So It Goes
(c) The Children's Crusade
(d) The Destruction of Dresden

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

7. What do stars look like to Tralfamadorans?
(a) Hexagonal specks of light
(b) Glowing bouncing balls
(c) Pulsating circles of light
(d) Strings of luminous spaghetti

8. What surprised the British officers most about the American prisoners?
(a) How young they were
(b) How tired they looked
(c) How nice they were
(d) How ill-dressed they were

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

10. What complaint is Billy's doctor trying to relieve?
(a) Billy finds himself weeping for no reason.
(b) It takes Billy hours to fall asleep at night.
(c) Billy has no appetite and has lost too much weight.
(d) Billy is unable to focus on his work.

11. What does Billy's doctor advise him to do every day?
(a) Take anti-depressants
(b) Take a long walk
(c) Take a nap
(d) Pray

12. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(b) The young people in the Children's Crusade
(c) Ants moving their anthill to a new location
(d) Water flowing downhill into a large river

13. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?
(a) Sitting on his couch, watching a war movie
(b) Waiting for his wife to wake up and get dressed
(c) Back in the Carlsbad Caverns, in the dark
(d) In a mental ward, three years after the war

14. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?
(a) Heaven
(b) A movie set
(c) A brothel
(d) A palace

15. What is Billy's position in the war?
(a) Corporal in Support Services
(b) Second lieutenant
(c) Chaplain's assistant
(d) Private in the Infantry

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Billy make his first public speech?

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

3. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .

4. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?

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

(see the answer keys)

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