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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. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.
(b) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.
(c) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.
(d) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.

2. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(b) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.
(c) It reminds him of the Danube River.
(d) They want to go swimming in the water.

3. How does Roland Weary die?
(a) Killed by a German guard
(b) From gangrene in his feet
(c) By shooting himself in the head
(d) Killed by the other prisoners

4. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?
(a) She thinks he is going to glorify soldiers in war.
(b) He refuses to drink the tea she offers.
(c) He gets her husband drunk in the kitchen.
(d) He ignores her when she asks questions.

5. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?
(a) They perform intelligence tests on him.
(b) They use him to test medicines.
(c) They ask him about Earth culture.
(d) They put him on display in a zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?

2. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?

3. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .

4. What do stars look like to Tralfamadorans?

5. How do the Tralfamadorans make Billy climb the ladder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Vonnegut say this book will be "jumbled and jangled?"

2. Why do the Tralfamadorans not believe in free will?

3. Where does Billy time travel to when the spaceship hits a time warp?

4. Why is Billy afraid to drop down from the railroad car?

5. Why does Kurt Vonnegut use real information from his life in this book?

6. What did Kurt Vonnegut learn about the bombing of Dresden when he wrote to the Air Force for details?

7. What parts of Ilium remind Billy of the ruined towns in World War II?

8. Why do the Germans need to record the names of the prisoners?

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

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

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