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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who becomes the Head American?
(a) A British Officer
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Billy Pilgrim
(d) Paul Lazzaro
2. 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) The lone survivor of an airplane crash begins to experience the memories of those who died.
(c) A man and woman are kidnapped by aliens and displayed in a zoo.
(d) A man tries to investigate a murder that takes place in the future.
3. How do the Tralfamadorans view every creature and plant in the universe?
(a) As machines
(b) As sacred beings
(c) As doomed souls
(d) As unique individuals
4. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?
(a) His daughter gets married.
(b) Reagan is elected president.
(c) His wife dies.
(d) His son joins the army.
5. What response does Campbell get from most of the prisoners?
(a) Disgust
(b) Curiosity
(c) Scorn
(d) No response
6. 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
7. What is Paul Lazzaro most proud of?
(a) He never stole anything in his life.
(b) He never told a lie to another.
(c) He was able to fight as a boxer.
(d) He never hurt an innocent bystander.
8. According to Bernard O'Hare's notebook, by 2000, the human population of the world will be. . .
(a) Five billion people
(b) Six billion people
(c) Seven billion people
(d) Eleven billion people
9. Whom else board the plane
(a) Government Bureacrats
(b) Soldiers like Billy
(c) Some other opthometrists
(d) Aliens from Trafalmadore
10. What does the Head Englishman give the American soldiers in the theater?
(a) Boxes of pears and apples
(b) A map of the prison camp
(c) A radio tuned to an English station
(d) A lecture on hygiene
11. What do they find in the ruins of a building?
(a) One small child who survived the fires
(b) The body of a priest clutching a rosary
(c) An American prisoner who had been missing
(d) Dozens of unmarked corpses
12. Why does Bertram Rumfoord not want to hear Billy talk about Dresden?
(a) He does not want to have to deal with facts about the bombing.
(b) He does not believe that Billy was really there.
(c) He is worried that Lily is secretly attracted to Billy.
(d) He does not need any more research about the event.
13. According to this book, by the late nineteen seventies, the United States of America has been. . .
(a) conquered by the Chinese.
(b) turned into a huge shopping mall.
(c) declared the last super power.
(d) divided into 20 smaller countries.
14. What is the source of the "animal magnetism" that Billy feels in the hospital?
(a) A vampire
(b) The nurse
(c) His coat
(d) An alien
15. What does the author call the places where bodies were found in Dresden?
(a) Corpse caches
(b) Body holes
(c) Corpse mines
(d) Ground zero
Short Answer Questions
1. Why did the English prisoners give their latrine to the Americans?
2. How does Billy find out that the war is over?
3. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?
4. Who is Howard J. Campbell?
5. What work does Billy do as a prisoner of war?
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