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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. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?
(a) American Army Scouts
(b) The Tralfamadorans
(c) Bernard O'Hare
(d) A patrol of German soldiers

2. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(b) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(c) In the back of a flatbed truck
(d) On a matchbook cover by candlelight

3. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(b) He has become
(c) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(d) He does not like fighting.

4. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?
(a) Cinderella
(b) Hamlet
(c) Sleeping Beauty
(d) The Trojan War

5. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?
(a) The hobo
(b) Bernard O'Hare
(c) Paul Lazzaro
(d) Edgar Derby

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?

2. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?

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

4. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was the Children's Crusade?

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

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

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

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

9. Why were Roland Weary's feet so bloody?

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

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