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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?
(a) His pocket watch
(b) His ancient rifle
(c) His golden boots
(d) His sheepskin jacket

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

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

6. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) They want to go swimming in the water.
(b) It reminds him of the Danube River.
(c) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(d) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.

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

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

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

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

11. How does Roland Weary die?
(a) Killed by a German guard
(b) By shooting himself in the head
(c) From gangrene in his feet
(d) Killed by the other prisoners

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

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

14. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) He gets her husband drunk in the kitchen.
(b) He ignores her when she asks questions.
(c) He refuses to drink the tea she offers.
(d) She thinks he is going to glorify soldiers in war.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long had the British soldiers been prisoners of war?

3. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?

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

5. What was it about the Grand Canyon that scared Billy?

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