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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which sport are Kilgore Trout's aliens most interested in?
(a) Baseball
(b) Golf
(c) Horse racing
(d) Basketball
2. Which of these was not the subject of a book by Kilgore Trout?
(a) A time warp
(b) A robot with bad breath
(c) A tree that grows money
(d) A cattle drive in space
3. 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 time travels away to Tralfamadore.
(d) He sneaks out while the nurse is not watching.
4. What do they find in the ruins of a building?
(a) An American prisoner who had been missing
(b) The body of a priest clutching a rosary
(c) Dozens of unmarked corpses
(d) One small child who survived the fires
5. What injury does Billy suffer from the airplane crash?
(a) He has broken his leg.
(b) He has only cuts and scratches.
(c) He has a fractured skull.
(d) He has broken four ribs.
6. Who is the first person Billy sees when he wakes up after surgery?
(a) His son, Robert
(b) Lily Rumfoord
(c) Professor Rumfoord
(d) His daughter, Barbara
7. Who guards Billy and Edgar Derby as they work in the slaughterhouse?
(a) A sixteen-year-old boy
(b) An old man with one leg
(c) Two blonde German soldiers
(d) Paul Lazzaro
8. How does Billy find out that the war is over?
(a) The American soldiers announce the news.
(b) The door to the inn is open.
(c) He hears the news on the radio.
(d) A girl comes up and kisses him.
9. How does Billy start telling people about Tralfamadore?
(a) He writes a letter to the New York Times.
(b) By going on a television show and speaking to the host.
(c) On a radio show that broadcasts near his hotel.
(d) He writes a book that becomes a bestseller.
10. Who does Barbara Pilgrim say she would like to kill?
(a) Kilgore Trout
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Eliot Rosewater
(d) Howard J. Campbell
11. How long does Billy stay in Dresden before it is bombed?
(a) Thirty days
(b) Six months
(c) Two months
(d) Three weeks
12. Who is Bertram Rumfoord?
(a) Another optometrist in the airplane crash
(b) Billy Pilgrim's father-in-law
(c) Another survivor of the Dresden bombing
(d) A professor and official Air Force Historian
13. What does Billy see in the bookstore in Times Square?
(a) A recording of songs by the Four-Eyed Bastards
(b) A magazine with Montana Wildhack on the cover
(c) A book that describes the Tralfamadorans
(d) A picture of himself taken by the German soldiers
14. What did the corpses start to smell like?
(a) Mustard gas and roses
(b) Melted wax
(c) Vinegar and bleach
(d) Axle grease
15. What decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?
(a) Never to get married again
(b) To tell the world about Tralfamadore
(c) To protest the Vietnam War
(d) Never to get into another airplane
Short Answer Questions
1. What happened to Billy's partner?
2. How many novels has Kilgore Trout written?
3. Who broke Paul Lazzaro's arm?
4. Who, according to the author, died two days before he wrote this chapter?
5. Who is Billy's digging partner?
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