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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 used to live in the room where Billy stays?
(a) Alexander Woolcott
(b) George Jean Nathan
(c) Dorothy Parker
(d) Truman Capote

2. What does the author call the places where bodies were found in Dresden?
(a) Corpse caches
(b) Corpse mines
(c) Body holes
(d) Ground zero

3. What response does Campbell get from most of the prisoners?
(a) No response
(b) Disgust
(c) Scorn
(d) Curiosity

4. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?
(a) Food
(b) Glory
(c) Freedom
(d) Power

5. How does Billy find out that the war is over?
(a) He hears the news on the radio.
(b) The door to the inn is open.
(c) The American soldiers announce the news.
(d) A girl comes up and kisses him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work does Billy do as a prisoner of war?

2. Whom else board the plane

3. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?

4. Why does Billy return to Dresden after the war ends?

5. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bernard's article about human population reveal about life?

2. Why is Kilgore Trout shadowing Billy at the anniversary party?

3. How does Edgar react when Billy feeds him?

4. How does Billy's wife, Valencia, die?

5. What does the phrase "so it goes" mean?

6. What is Billy Pilgrim wearing by the time he reaches Dresden?

7. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

8. What is the meaning of the last line of the novel?

9. Why do people think Billy is brain damaged after his surgery?

10. Why were there so many girls at the slaughterhouse?

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