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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Paul Lazzaro most proud of?
(a) He never told a lie to another.
(b) He was able to fight as a boxer.
(c) He never hurt an innocent bystander.
(d) He never stole anything in his life.

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

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

4. Professor Rumfoord is said to resemble. . .
(a) Theodore Roosevelt
(b) Sean Connery
(c) Howard J. Campbell
(d) a gorilla

5. What connection is there between Werner Gluck and Billy Pilgrim?
(a) They are exactly the same age.
(b) They went to the same school.
(c) They both studied Optometry.
(d) They are distant cousins.

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

7. What, according to Paul Lazzaro, is the sweetest thing on Earth?
(a) Vanilla Ice Cream
(b) Sex
(c) Family
(d) Revenge

8. What is the source of the "animal magnetism" that Billy feels in the hospital?
(a) The nurse
(b) His coat
(c) A vampire
(d) An alien

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

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

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

12. How does Billy help Edgar?
(a) He offers to do Edgar's work.
(b) He gives him a syrup lollipop.
(c) He reads to him at night.
(d) He hides things for him.

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

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

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. Which of these was not the subject of a book by Kilgore Trout?

2. What did the Polish song remind Billy about?

3. Why was Trout so surprised to meet Billy?

4. Who wrote a fan letter to Kilgore Trout?

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

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