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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?
(a) Edgar Derby
(b) Paul Lazzaro
(c) The hobo
(d) Bernard O'Hare
2. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?
(a) They like the Americans
(b) They are making postcards
(c) For propaganda purposes
(d) For official records
3. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) Swimming in the Hudson River
(b) Marching next to Roland Weary
(c) That he is a giraffe
(d) Flying over the battlefield
4. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Where they are and how they got there.
(b) How his life will end.
(c) What life on Trafalmadore is like.
(d) Where his mother is.
5. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?
(a) They poke him with long sticks.
(b) They threaten him with death.
(c) They ask him politely.
(d) They shoot a ray at him.
6. Who promises to avenge Roland?
(a) Paul Lazzaro
(b) Billy Pilgrim
(c) Edgar Derby
(d) The Three Musketeers
7. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?
(a) Sitting on his couch, watching a war movie
(b) In a mental ward, three years after the war
(c) Waiting for his wife to wake up and get dressed
(d) Back in the Carlsbad Caverns, in the dark
8. By the time they reach Luxembourg, Roland Weary is reduced to wearing. . .
(a) his hair in a ponytail.
(b) clogs instead of boots.
(c) a blanket instead of a coat.
(d) handcuffs on his wrists.
9. What do stars look like to Tralfamadorans?
(a) Strings of luminous spaghetti
(b) Glowing bouncing balls
(c) Hexagonal specks of light
(d) Pulsating circles of light
10. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(b) On the radio in 1968
(c) In the POW camp in 1944
(d) To his high school class in 1940
11. Which college did Vonnegut attend?
(a) Cornell University
(b) The University of Chicago
(c) Stanford University
(d) The University of Dresden
12. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(b) Water flowing downhill into a large river
(c) The young people in the Children's Crusade
(d) Ants moving their anthill to a new location
13. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) On a matchbook cover by candlelight
(b) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(c) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(d) In the back of a flatbed truck
14. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?
(a) Wild Bob
(b) Kurt Vonnegut
(c) Bernard O'Hare
(d) Roland Weary
15. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?
(a) His father dies in a hunting accident.
(b) His mother suffers a relapse in the hospital.
(c) He becomes ill with appendicitis.
(d) He asks to visit his wife before going overseas.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?
2. How does Roland Weary die?
3. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?
4. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?
5. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?
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