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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 stops drinking and becomes sober.
(b) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(c) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(d) He settles down and gets married.

2. How long had the British soldiers been prisoners of war?
(a) Eight months
(b) Two years
(c) A year and a half
(d) Four years

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

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

5. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?
(a) What life on Trafalmadore is like.
(b) Where they are and how they got there.
(c) Where his mother is.
(d) How his life will end.

6. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?
(a) In a deserted zoo
(b) In a baby food factory
(c) In a slaughterhouse
(d) In an empty school

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

8. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(b) He has become
(c) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(d) He does not like fighting.

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

10. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?
(a) Mocks his accent
(b) Beats him with a rifle
(c) Spits on his shoulder
(d) Takes away his uniform

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

12. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?
(a) Not to be involved in them, or take glee from them.
(b) To run away from them if at all possible.
(c) That they are a necessary part of human history.
(d) That they are excusable if done for a good reason.

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

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

15. What does Billy see in the Carlsbad Caverns when the lights are switched off?
(a) The silhouette of the Ranger's hat
(b) His father's pocket watch glowing in the dark
(c) About a million bats falling out of an opening
(d) Nothing; he is left in total darkness

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?

3. Why are the American prisoners given showers?

4. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?

5. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?

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