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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. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?
(a) The hobo
(b) Bernard O'Hare
(c) Edgar Derby
(d) Paul Lazzaro

2. Where does Billy time travel to after the Carlbad Caverns?
(a) He returns to the POW camp.
(b) He travels to the moment of his death.
(c) He returns to basic training.
(d) He travels to another family vacation.

3. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?
(a) He said something that the German did not like.
(b) He was trying to escape from the POW camp.
(c) He was making fun of Billy Pilgrim.
(d) He was mimicking one of the other guards.

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

5. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?
(a) He returns to the Lion's Club dinner in 1957.
(b) He recalls nearly drowning in the swimming pool.
(c) He becomes an infant being washed by his mother.
(d) He goes back to the night when he was kidnapped.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?

2. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?

3. Who promises to avenge Roland?

4. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?

5. What does Billy see in the Carlsbad Caverns when the lights are switched off?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the author keep reminding the reader that Edgar Derby will die in Dresden?

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

7. Why is it unusual for Kurt Vonnegut to appear in this book as a character?

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

9. When does Billy Pilgrim first experience being unstuck in time?

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

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