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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In addition to being Rumfoord's fifth wife, Lily is also. . .
(a) a former go-go dancer
(b) related to Billy Pilgrim
(c) one of his former students
(d) an Air Force officer

3. What does Vonnegut compare Dresden to after it has been bombed?
(a) A huge parking lot
(b) The crater of a volcano
(c) The surface of the Moon
(d) A forest fire

4. Who guards Billy and Edgar Derby as they work in the slaughterhouse?
(a) Two blonde German soldiers
(b) A sixteen-year-old boy
(c) Paul Lazzaro
(d) An old man with one leg

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. How many novels has Kilgore Trout written?
(a) At least seventy-five
(b) Two dozen
(c) Three hundred
(d) Twenty-five

12. What do they find in the ruins of a building?
(a) One small child who survived the fires
(b) An American prisoner who had been missing
(c) The body of a priest clutching a rosary
(d) Dozens of unmarked corpses

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

14. What decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?
(a) To tell the world about Tralfamadore
(b) Never to get into another airplane
(c) To protest the Vietnam War
(d) Never to get married again

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing that causes Billy to cry during the war?

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

3. Why did the Germans who survived the bombing flee from Dresden?

4. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?

5. Who used to live in the room where Billy stays?

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