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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work does Billy do as a prisoner of war?
(a) He prepares meals.
(b) He censors letters.
(c) He counts passengers.
(d) He cleans and fills jars with syrup.

2. Who, according to the author, died two days before he wrote this chapter?
(a) John F. Kennedy
(b) Billy Pilgrim
(c) Kurt Vonnegut's father
(d) Robert Kennedy

3. What is Kilgore Trout doing when Billy first meets him?
(a) Complaining about his book sales
(b) Yelling at kids to sell newspapers
(c) Taking notes for a new novel
(d) Eating lunch at a greasy coffee shop

4. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?
(a) A boyscout troop hiking in the woods
(b) The barbershop quartet
(c) A ranger from a nearby station
(d) Two Austrian ski instructors

5. Who is Howard J. Campbell?
(a) One of the prisoners of war
(b) One of the American generals
(c) The owner of the factory Billy works in
(d) An American who joined the Nazi Party

6. 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

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

8. What did the Polish song remind Billy about?
(a) How much he misses being with his wife
(b) The accent of the Polish prisoners of war
(c) Seeing a Polish farm laborer hung in Dresden
(d) A vacation he took once to Poland

9. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?
(a) Somebody's fur hat
(b) A new overcoat
(c) Cinderella's gown
(d) Silver boots

10. What is the name of the barbershop quartet who perform on the airplane?
(a) Sixteen Eyes, No Waiting
(b) The Eyemen
(c) The Four Febs
(d) The Four-Eyed Bastards

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

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

13. How long does Billy stay in Dresden before it is bombed?
(a) Two months
(b) Six months
(c) Three weeks
(d) Thirty days

14. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?
(a) A sapphire necklace
(b) A cocktail ring
(c) A tennis bracelet
(d) Diamond earrings

15. Why does Bertram Rumfoord not want to hear Billy talk about Dresden?
(a) He does not need any more research about the event.
(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 want to have to deal with facts about the bombing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?

2. Where do the American prisoners sleep that night?

3. What do they find in the ruins of a building?

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

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

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