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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Billy's digging partner?
(a) A Russian prisoner named Dmitri
(b) Kurt Vonnegut
(c) An English officer from the camp
(d) A Maori prisoner named Tobruk

2. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?
(a) Two Austrian ski instructors
(b) A boyscout troop hiking in the woods
(c) A ranger from a nearby station
(d) The barbershop quartet

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

4. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?
(a) Freedom
(b) Power
(c) Glory
(d) Food

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

6. Who is the first person Billy sees when he wakes up after surgery?
(a) Professor Rumfoord
(b) Lily Rumfoord
(c) His daughter, Barbara
(d) His son, Robert

7. Where does Billy time travel to while he is on the airplane?
(a) Back to the moment when he proposed to his wife, Valencia
(b) Forward to the time when his daughter finds him in a cold house
(c) Forward to the moment when he first meets Montana Wildhack
(d) Back to the time he spent with Roland Weary before being captured

8. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?
(a) The ushers at his wedding eighteen years earlier
(b) The four guards who survived the bombing in Dresden
(c) The pallbearers at the funeral for is father
(d) The barbershop quartet who died in the airplane crash

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

10. Who was in the camp hospital with Billy when he woke up?
(a) Roland Weary and Edgar Derby
(b) A British Officer
(c) Edgar Derby and Paul Lazzaro
(d) No one

11. Who becomes the Head American?
(a) A British Officer
(b) Paul Lazzaro
(c) Edgar Derby
(d) Billy Pilgrim

12. How does Billy find out that the war is over?
(a) He hears the news on the radio.
(b) The door to the inn is open.
(c) The American soldiers announce the news.
(d) A girl comes up and kisses him.

13. According to Bernard O'Hare's notebook, by 2000, the human population of the world will be. . .
(a) Seven billion people
(b) Five billion people
(c) Six billion people
(d) Eleven billion people

14. What injury does Billy suffer from the airplane crash?
(a) He has only cuts and scratches.
(b) He has broken his leg.
(c) He has broken four ribs.
(d) He has a fractured skull.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do when Rumfoord tells him that Dresden did need to be bombed?

2. What do they find in the ruins of a building?

3. What did the corpses start to smell like?

4. What does Vonnegut compare Dresden to after it has been bombed?

5. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?

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