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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was in the camp hospital with Billy when he woke up?
(a) Edgar Derby and Paul Lazzaro
(b) No one
(c) A British Officer
(d) Roland Weary and Edgar Derby

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

3. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?
(a) The barbershop quartet who died in the airplane crash
(b) The pallbearers at the funeral for is father
(c) The four guards who survived the bombing in Dresden
(d) The ushers at his wedding eighteen years earlier

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

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

6. Who offers the American prisoners shelter after the bombing?
(a) A blind innkeeper
(b) An abbess in a nunnery
(c) A factory owner
(d) The Red Cross

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

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

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

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

11. What does Billy see in the bookstore in Times Square?
(a) A magazine with Montana Wildhack on the cover
(b) A book that describes the Tralfamadorans
(c) A picture of himself taken by the German soldiers
(d) A recording of songs by the Four-Eyed Bastards

12. How many novels has Kilgore Trout written?
(a) Three hundred
(b) At least seventy-five
(c) Two dozen
(d) Twenty-five

13. Where does Billy work while he is in Dresden?
(a) In a kitchen
(b) In a library
(c) In a factory
(d) In a railroad station

14. Which of these was not the subject of a book by Kilgore Trout?
(a) A time warp
(b) A tree that grows money
(c) A robot with bad breath
(d) A cattle drive in space

15. In addition to being Rumfoord's fifth wife, Lily is also. . .
(a) one of his former students
(b) a former go-go dancer
(c) related to Billy Pilgrim
(d) an Air Force officer

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?

2. When does Billy believe that he will die?

3. What does Vonnegut compare Dresden to after it has been bombed?

4. Who is the first person Billy sees when he wakes up after surgery?

5. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?

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