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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 the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(b) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.
(c) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.
(d) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.

2. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?
(a) She started to sing and dance.
(b) She suddenly fell down dead.
(c) She turned into a pillar of salt.
(d) She began to weep uncontrollably.

3. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?
(a) A palace
(b) Heaven
(c) A movie set
(d) A brothel

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?

2. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?

3. What does Barbara think is wrong with Billy when she finds him in his cold house?

4. Why do the Germans laugh at Billy's coat?

5. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Billy finally get some sleep?

6. What was the Children's Crusade?

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

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

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

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

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