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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?
(a) His daughter calls on the telephone.
(b) The Tralfamadorans show up.
(c) The neighbor's dog starts barking.
(d) A man comes selling magazine subscriptions.

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

3. What is unusual about the war movie Billy watches?
(a) The characters in the movie start talking to Billy.
(b) It is about Billy's own experiences in the war.
(c) It plays backwards and then forwards again.
(d) It stars Roland Weary as the hero of the story.

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

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

6. What does Billy's doctor advise him to do every day?
(a) Take anti-depressants
(b) Take a nap
(c) Take a long walk
(d) Pray

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

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

9. Why is Billy taken to the hospital during the play?
(a) He faints and they realize he is feverish.
(b) He starts throwing up.
(c) He starts laughing and cannot stop.
(d) He starts coughing up blood.

10. What do humans look like to the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Pale worms
(b) Butterflies
(c) Millipedes
(d) Chimpanzees

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

12. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .
(a) during the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
(b) have ever died in automobile accidents.
(c) than died in the Concentration Camps.
(d) have died from cancer in the last two years.

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

14. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) Slaughterhouse-Five
(b) The Destruction of Dresden
(c) So It Goes
(d) The Children's Crusade

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Edgar Derby's job before he joined the army?

2. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?

3. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?

4. How does Roland Weary die?

5. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?

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