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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. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?
(a) During the march in 1944
(b) One morning in 1945
(c) After dinner in 1957
(d) On a night in 1967

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

3. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?
(a) Mocks his accent
(b) Takes away his uniform
(c) Spits on his shoulder
(d) Beats him with a rifle

4. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) That he is a giraffe
(b) Swimming in the Hudson River
(c) Marching next to Roland Weary
(d) Flying over the battlefield

5. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?
(a) That he's been hungry for weeks.
(b) The secrets of Trafalmadore.
(c) That he knows him from somewhere.
(d) That he has been in worse situations than this.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy's doctor advise him to do every day?

2. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?

3. What name does Roland Weary give to the group of lost soldiers?

4. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?

5. What do stars look like to Tralfamadorans?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Billy describe the Tralfamadorans?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of a Tralfamadoran novel.

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

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

10. How do the Tralfamadorans answer Billy's question about being kidnapped?

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