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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What crime does Billy commit while he is working?
(a) He kills a guard who tries to steal from him.
(b) He eats syrup meant for pregnant women.
(c) He steals jewels and puts them in his pocket.
(d) He falls asleep while he is supposed to work.

6. Whom else board the plane
(a) Some other opthometrists
(b) Soldiers like Billy
(c) Government Bureacrats
(d) Aliens from Trafalmadore

7. When does Billy believe that he will die?
(a) January 25th, 1982
(b) February 13th, 1976
(c) October 12th, 1980
(d) September 17th, 1979

8. What does Bertram Rumfoord tell Lily about Billy?
(a) That Billy used to be famous
(b) That Billy should be a private room
(c) That Billy would be better off dead
(d) That Billy was a private in the army

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

10. Who, according to Campbell, would the Americans be fighting if they joined him?
(a) American Communists
(b) Nazi Socialists
(c) Jewish people
(d) Russian Communists

11. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?
(a) That the plane was going to crash
(b) That his wife was planning to leave him
(c) That he would never return home
(d) That his business was going bankrupt

12. Which Earthling do the Tralfamadorans find the most interesting?
(a) Billy Pilgrim
(b) Kilgore Trout
(c) Jesus Christ
(d) Charles Darwin

13. Who catches Billy at his crime?
(a) A German refugee
(b) Werner Gluck
(c) Paul Lazzaro
(d) Edgar Derby

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Barbara Pilgrim say she would like to kill?

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

3. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?

4. What connection is there between Werner Gluck and Billy Pilgrim?

5. Of those below, who was not busy in Dresden after the bombing?

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