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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Vonnegut study in college?
(a) Political science
(b) Philosophy
(c) Anthropology
(d) Creative Writing

2. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?
(a) The guards start searching through the railroad car.
(b) The railroad car starts moving too fast to sleep.
(c) The other soldiers tell him to go lie down someplace else.
(d) Someone in the darkness starts screaming loudly.

3. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?
(a) L. Ron Hubbard
(b) Philip K. Dick
(c) Kurt Vonnegut
(d) Kilgore Trout

4. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?
(a) Poo-tee-weet?
(b) So it goes.
(c) Nothing would ever be the same.
(d) And that's the end.

5. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?
(a) A naked woman and a Shetland pony
(b) His mother and his sister
(c) His car and his rifle
(d) His best friends back in the United States

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?

2. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?

3. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?

4. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?

5. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Billy finally get some sleep?

2. Why does Billy keep a framed copy of the Serenity Prayer in his office?

3. What happened to the army scouts who left Billy and Roland behind?

4. Describe the structure of a Tralfamadoran novel.

5. What was the Children's Crusade?

6. Why were Roland Weary's feet so bloody?

7. What does it mean that Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time?"

8. Where were the American prisoners of war kept as they were captured?

9. Name some of the places in time that Billy travels to in this chapter.

10. Why did Roland Weary start to beat and kick Billy?

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