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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Mackay's opinion about the Children's Crusade?
(a) It was a terrible betrayal of the families involved.
(b) It was a bitter waste, but ultimately positive.
(c) It was only slightly worse than grown-up crusades.
(d) It was a glorious event that should be celebrated.

4. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?
(a) The letter from his mother
(b) A picture of his girlfriend
(c) A two-inch pencil stub
(d) His rifle and bayonet

5. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) An anti-glacier book
(b) An epic
(c) A memoir
(d) An anti-war book

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

7. What name does Roland Weary give to the group of lost soldiers?
(a) The Band of Brothers
(b) The Lost Souls
(c) The Three Musketeers
(d) The Last Warriors

8. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?
(a) He was a chaplain's assistant.
(b) He was a factory worker.
(c) Working in a restaurant.
(d) He worked as a police reporter.

9. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He writes a book about his war experiences.
(b) He tells a radio audience that he was kidnapped by aliens.
(c) He leaves his wife for a movie star named Montana Wildhack.
(d) He goes back to Dresden to see what it looks like now.

10. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?
(a) If many people commit suicide by jumping into the canyon
(b) How many species living in the canyon had gone extinct
(c) If there were any good hotels inside the canyon itself
(d) If you could go white water rafting on the river

11. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?
(a) The secrets of Trafalmadore.
(b) That he knows him from somewhere.
(c) That he's been hungry for weeks.
(d) That he has been in worse situations than this.

12. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) He gets her husband drunk in the kitchen.
(b) He refuses to drink the tea she offers.
(c) He ignores her when she asks questions.
(d) She thinks he is going to glorify soldiers in war.

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

14. 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 the backseat of his car
(d) In a prisoner of war camp

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?

2. Why is Billy taken to the hospital during the play?

3. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?

4. What is Billy's position in the war?

5. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?

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