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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?
(a) His mother and his sister
(b) A naked woman and a Shetland pony
(c) His car and his rifle
(d) His best friends back in the United States

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

5. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) In the POW camp in 1944
(b) On the radio in 1968
(c) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(d) To his high school class in 1940

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

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

8. What question does the Frenchman ask about the Grand Canyon?
(a) If many people commit suicide by jumping into the canyon
(b) If there were any good hotels inside the canyon itself
(c) If you could go white water rafting on the river
(d) How many species living in the canyon had gone extinct

9. 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) have died from cancer in the last two years.
(d) than died in the Concentration Camps.

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

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

12. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?
(a) The other soldiers tell him to go lie down someplace else.
(b) The railroad car starts moving too fast to sleep.
(c) Someone in the darkness starts screaming loudly.
(d) The guards start searching through the railroad car.

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

14. Who is "Princess?"
(a) Roland Weary's wife
(b) Billy's first girlfriend
(c) The woman in Roland's picture
(d) A German shepherd dog

15. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?
(a) A patrol of German soldiers
(b) American Army Scouts
(c) The Tralfamadorans
(d) Bernard O'Hare

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?

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

3. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?

4. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?

5. What surprised the British officers most about the American prisoners?

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