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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He settles down and gets married.
(b) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(c) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(d) He stops drinking and becomes sober.

2. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) She began to weep uncontrollably.
(b) She suddenly fell down dead.
(c) She turned into a pillar of salt.
(d) She started to sing and dance.

3. Which college did Vonnegut attend?
(a) Cornell University
(b) The University of Chicago
(c) The University of Dresden
(d) Stanford University

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

5. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?
(a) For official records
(b) They are making postcards
(c) They like the Americans
(d) For propaganda purposes

6. By the time they reach Luxembourg, Roland Weary is reduced to wearing. . .
(a) a blanket instead of a coat.
(b) clogs instead of boots.
(c) his hair in a ponytail.
(d) handcuffs on his wrists.

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

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

9. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?
(a) He goes back to the night when he was kidnapped.
(b) He returns to the Lion's Club dinner in 1957.
(c) He becomes an infant being washed by his mother.
(d) He recalls nearly drowning in the swimming pool.

10. What are the Tralfamadorans?
(a) A secret society of optometrists.
(b) People who become Billy's fan club.
(c) A group of anti-war activists.
(d) Aliens that see in four dimensions.

11. What happens to Billy in 1968?
(a) His children try to get him committed to a mental ward.
(b) He is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery.
(c) His father gets into a car accident and nearly dies.
(d) He survives a plane crash and his wife dies.

12. What does the Tralfamadoran compare a moment in time to?
(a) A bug trapped in amber
(b) A sheet of ice
(c) The reflection in a mirror
(d) A flickering flame

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

14. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?
(a) They poke him with long sticks.
(b) They threaten him with death.
(c) They shoot a ray at him.
(d) They ask him politely.

15. This took place in:
(a) Paris
(b) Dresden
(c) Munich
(d) Rome

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?

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

3. What was Mackay's opinion about the Children's Crusade?

4. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?

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

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