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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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 policeman in Chicago
(c) A guard in the prison camp
(d) A taxi-driver in Dresde

5. What was it about the Grand Canyon that scared Billy?
(a) He thought a rock might fall on his head.
(b) It reminded him of the swimming pool.
(c) He thought he might fall into it.
(d) He could not see the end of it.

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

7. Where does Billy time travel to after the Carlbad Caverns?
(a) He travels to the moment of his death.
(b) He travels to another family vacation.
(c) He returns to the POW camp.
(d) He returns to basic training.

8. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.
(b) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.
(c) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.
(d) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.

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

10. What did Vonnegut study in college?
(a) Creative Writing
(b) Anthropology
(c) Political science
(d) Philosophy

11. Who promises to avenge Roland?
(a) The Three Musketeers
(b) Billy Pilgrim
(c) Edgar Derby
(d) Paul Lazzaro

12. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?
(a) His best friends back in the United States
(b) A naked woman and a Shetland pony
(c) His car and his rifle
(d) His mother and his sister

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

14. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) That he is a giraffe
(b) Marching next to Roland Weary
(c) Swimming in the Hudson River
(d) Flying over the battlefield

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?

2. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?

3. What is unique about the coat Billy Pilgrim gets from the Germans?

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

5. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?

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