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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?
(a) Poo-tee-weet?
(b) And that's the end.
(c) Nothing would ever be the same.
(d) So it goes.

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

3. Who does Roland Weary blame for his death?
(a) Billy Pilgrim
(b) God
(c) Wild Bob
(d) The Germans

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

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

6. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(b) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.
(c) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.
(d) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.

7. 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.

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

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

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) To his high school class in 1940
(d) In the POW camp in 1944

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

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

13. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?
(a) Rejoice!
(b) So it goes.
(c) That's a pity.
(d) No one really dies.

14. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) In the back of a flatbed truck
(b) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(c) On a matchbook cover by candlelight
(d) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?

2. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?

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

4. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?

5. Who is "Princess?"

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