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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 does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He leaves his wife for a movie star named Montana Wildhack.
(b) He goes back to Dresden to see what it looks like now.
(c) He writes a book about his war experiences.
(d) He tells a radio audience that he was kidnapped by aliens.

2. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?
(a) His rifle and bayonet
(b) A two-inch pencil stub
(c) The letter from his mother
(d) A picture of his girlfriend

3. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(b) On the radio in 1968
(c) To his high school class in 1940
(d) In the POW camp in 1944

4. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?
(a) It's a nuisance; time goes too slowly.
(b) Like a river that flows in one direction only.
(c) As a gift that should be treasured like gold.
(d) As permanent fixtures, like the Rocky Mountains.

5. What do stars look like to Tralfamadorans?
(a) Strings of luminous spaghetti
(b) Glowing bouncing balls
(c) Pulsating circles of light
(d) Hexagonal specks of light

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?

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

3. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?

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

5. What is Billy's position in the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why were the British officers in this particular camp?

4. What does Billy extrapolate happening after the end of the war movie he is watching on the night before his daughter's wedding?

5. What was the Children's Crusade?

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

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

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

9. What is unusual about the way Tralfamadorans view time?

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

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