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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Trout so surprised to meet Billy?
(a) He learned that he needed glasses.
(b) He had heard about Billy from friends.
(c) He had never met a fan before.
(d) He had never met an optometrist before.

2. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?
(a) A sapphire necklace
(b) Diamond earrings
(c) A cocktail ring
(d) A tennis bracelet

3. What do the American pilots do when they see the prisoners of war walking through Dresden after the bombing?
(a) Drop leaflets about freedom
(b) Fire bullets at them
(c) Drop packages of food
(d) Stop to rescue them

4. What does Billy do when Rumfoord tells him that Dresden did need to be bombed?
(a) He starts crying.
(b) He says it was a pity.
(c) He agrees.
(d) He gets angry.

5. Who offers the American prisoners shelter after the bombing?
(a) A blind innkeeper
(b) An abbess in a nunnery
(c) The Red Cross
(d) A factory owner

6. What is the name of the barbershop quartet who perform on the airplane?
(a) The Four-Eyed Bastards
(b) The Four Febs
(c) Sixteen Eyes, No Waiting
(d) The Eyemen

7. Why does Billy return to Dresden after the war ends?
(a) To look for survivors
(b) To find the body of Edgar Derby
(c) To look for souvenirs
(d) To take a picture of his old home

8. Why did the English prisoners give their latrine to the Americans?
(a) They wanted to be as friendly as possible.
(b) They were disgusted by the Americans' messiness.
(c) They wanted the Americans to feel at home.
(d) They did not need the latrine because they had another one.

9. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?
(a) A man and woman are kidnapped by aliens and displayed in a zoo.
(b) A robot starts to think that he is experiencing time travel.
(c) The lone survivor of an airplane crash begins to experience the memories of those who died.
(d) A man tries to investigate a murder that takes place in the future.

10. What is the English translation of "Schlachthof-Funf?"
(a) Fun-House
(b) Sausage-Factory
(c) Surgical-Office
(d) Slaughterhouse-Five

11. What does Billy find outside the inn?
(a) One of the German refugees
(b) A coffin-shaped wagon and two horses
(c) The bodies of two German soldiers
(d) Paul Lazzaro with a knife in his hand

12. What does the author call the places where bodies were found in Dresden?
(a) Ground zero
(b) Body holes
(c) Corpse caches
(d) Corpse mines

13. How does Billy start telling people about Tralfamadore?
(a) On a radio show that broadcasts near his hotel.
(b) He writes a book that becomes a bestseller.
(c) By going on a television show and speaking to the host.
(d) He writes a letter to the New York Times.

14. Who was not permitted to enter Dresden after the bombing?
(a) American prisoners of war
(b) German citizens
(c) Russian soldiers
(d) German soldiers

15. How do the Tralfamadorans view every creature and plant in the universe?
(a) As machines
(b) As doomed souls
(c) As sacred beings
(d) As unique individuals

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?

2. Where does Billy time travel to while he is on the airplane?

3. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?

4. What crime does Billy commit while he is working?

5. Who becomes the Head American?

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