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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are the prisoners of war taken back to Dresden after the bombing?
(a) To look for survivors of the fires
(b) There is no other place to put them
(c) To dig for bodies in the rubble
(d) To salvage weapons from the buildings

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

4. How does Billy leave the hospital?
(a) He goes to stay with Bertram and Lily at their home.
(b) He leaves with Barbara and Robert.
(c) He sneaks out while the nurse is not watching.
(d) He time travels away to Tralfamadore.

5. How do the Tralfamadorans view every creature and plant in the universe?
(a) As doomed souls
(b) As unique individuals
(c) As machines
(d) As sacred beings

6. In New York, Billy stays at which hotel?
(a) The Royalton Hotel
(b) The Ritz-Carlton
(c) Trump Tower
(d) The Warwick

7. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?
(a) Heartburn
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Explosions
(d) Sleepiness

8. What is the English translation of "Schlachthof-Funf?"
(a) Fun-House
(b) Slaughterhouse-Five
(c) Sausage-Factory
(d) Surgical-Office

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

10. 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.

11. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?
(a) Glory
(b) Food
(c) Freedom
(d) Power

12. What does Billy find outside the inn?
(a) One of the German refugees
(b) A coffin-shaped wagon and two horses
(c) Paul Lazzaro with a knife in his hand
(d) The bodies of two German soldiers

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

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

15. Why did the Englishman say that Dresden would never be bombed?
(a) Because it was too far from the border
(b) Because it was a neutral city
(c) Because the prisoners of war were there
(d) Because it had no war industries

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the corpses start to smell like?

2. According to Bernard O'Hare's notebook, by 2000, the human population of the world will be. . .

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

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

5. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?

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