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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 Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?
(a) Not to be involved in them, or take glee from them.
(b) That they are a necessary part of human history.
(c) To run away from them if at all possible.
(d) That they are excusable if done for a good reason.

2. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?
(a) His father dies in a hunting accident.
(b) He asks to visit his wife before going overseas.
(c) His mother suffers a relapse in the hospital.
(d) He becomes ill with appendicitis.

3. Why are the American prisoners given showers?
(a) To help kill the lice and germs on their bodies
(b) Because the Germans cannot stand their smell
(c) In order to humiliate the American Army
(d) To warm them up after the cold railroad ride

4. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He stops drinking and becomes sober.
(b) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(c) He settles down and gets married.
(d) He gets a job delivering phone books.

5. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) The Destruction of Dresden
(b) So It Goes
(c) Slaughterhouse-Five
(d) The Children's Crusade

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?

2. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?

3. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?

4. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?

5. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Children's Crusade?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Billy describe the Tralfamadorans?

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