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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. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?
(a) He returns to the Lion's Club dinner in 1957.
(b) He recalls nearly drowning in the swimming pool.
(c) He goes back to the night when he was kidnapped.
(d) He becomes an infant being washed by his mother.

2. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(b) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies
(c) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp
(d) A colonel who lost his entire regiment

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

4. What did Vonnegut study in college?
(a) Creative Writing
(b) Philosophy
(c) Political science
(d) Anthropology

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?

2. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?

3. Where does Billy time travel to after the Carlbad Caverns?

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

5. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Billy keep a framed copy of the Serenity Prayer in his office?

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

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

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