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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who died a month earlier than that?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Montana Wildhack
(c) Fifty-eight soldiers in Vietnam
(d) Robert Kennedy

2. Where is Dresden located when Vonnegut goes to visit it?
(a) France
(b) Russia
(c) West Germany
(d) East Germany

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

4. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?
(a) Heartburn
(b) Explosions
(c) Sleepiness
(d) Edgar Derby

5. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?
(a) The American army advancing
(b) The hobo's body in the weeds
(c) Several people from the nearby town
(d) More prisoners coming into camp

6. What do Billy, Werner, and Edgar find instead of a kitchen?
(a) A pen filled with the bodies of animals
(b) A library stuffed with old books
(c) A room that holds luggage from refugees
(d) A large shower with naked girls in it

7. Who is Howard J. Campbell?
(a) An American who joined the Nazi Party
(b) One of the American generals
(c) The owner of the factory Billy works in
(d) One of the prisoners of war

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

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

10. Why did the Englishman say that Dresden would never be bombed?
(a) Because it was too far from the border
(b) Because it had no war industries
(c) Because it was a neutral city
(d) Because the prisoners of war were there

11. Who used to live in the room where Billy stays?
(a) Alexander Woolcott
(b) Truman Capote
(c) George Jean Nathan
(d) Dorothy Parker

12. Who does Barbara Pilgrim say she would like to kill?
(a) Kilgore Trout
(b) Howard J. Campbell
(c) Edgar Derby
(d) Eliot Rosewater

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What response does Campbell get from most of the prisoners?

2. According to this book, by the late nineteen seventies, the United States of America has been. . .

3. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?

4. Who was not permitted to enter Dresden after the bombing?

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

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