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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billy do when Rumfoord tells him that Dresden did need to be bombed?
(a) He agrees.
(b) He says it was a pity.
(c) He gets angry.
(d) He starts crying.

2. 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

3. 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) Drop leaflets about freedom
(c) Stop to rescue them
(d) Fire bullets at them

4. Which sport are Kilgore Trout's aliens most interested in?
(a) Golf
(b) Horse racing
(c) Basketball
(d) Baseball

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

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

7. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?
(a) His son joins the army.
(b) Reagan is elected president.
(c) His wife dies.
(d) His daughter gets married.

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

9. Who broke Paul Lazzaro's arm?
(a) A German soldier
(b) Billy Pilgrim
(c) The Blue Fairy Godmother
(d) A Russian Prisoner of war

10. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?
(a) It was an heirloom in Billy's family
(b) Billy found it in Dresden
(c) The coat Billy wore in the POW camp
(d) Her father gave it to Billy

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

12. Why does Bertram Rumfoord not want to hear Billy talk about Dresden?
(a) He does not believe that Billy was really there.
(b) He does not want to have to deal with facts about the bombing.
(c) He is worried that Lily is secretly attracted to Billy.
(d) He does not need any more research about the event.

13. Where do the American prisoners sleep that night?
(a) In a stable
(b) In rented rooms
(c) Between large machines
(d) In a church

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) Never to get married again
(d) To protest the Vietnam War

15. Why does the Head Englishman envy the Americans?
(a) They are going to be exchanged soon and go home.
(b) They are moving out from the camp to Dresden.
(c) The German guards like the Americans better.
(d) They are young and will forget war sooner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Billy start telling people about Tralfamadore?

2. In addition to being Rumfoord's fifth wife, Lily is also. . .

3. What does Vonnegut imagine doing as he flies over the East German cities?

4. What is the name of the barbershop quartet who perform on the airplane?

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

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