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

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

3. Why is Billy taken to the hospital during the play?
(a) He starts throwing up.
(b) He faints and they realize he is feverish.
(c) He starts coughing up blood.
(d) He starts laughing and cannot stop.

4. Who is "Princess?"
(a) Roland Weary's wife
(b) Billy's first girlfriend
(c) A German shepherd dog
(d) The woman in Roland's picture

5. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?
(a) In a baby food factory
(b) In a slaughterhouse
(c) In a deserted zoo
(d) In an empty school

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Billy make his first public speech?

2. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?

3. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?

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

5. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the soliders not want Billy to sleep near them?

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

4. What does the story of Sodom and Gomorrah have to do with Vonnegut's book about Dresden?

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

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

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

8. Where does Billy wake up after falling asleep with the other prisoners in the stone cottage?

9. According to the aliens in Kilgore Trout's book, what is the flaw in the story of Christ?

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

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