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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 was in the camp hospital with Billy when he woke up?
(a) Roland Weary and Edgar Derby
(b) No one
(c) A British Officer
(d) Edgar Derby and Paul Lazzaro

2. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?
(a) That his business was going bankrupt
(b) That his wife was planning to leave him
(c) That he would never return home
(d) That the plane was going to crash

3. What is the one thing that causes Billy to cry during the war?
(a) He finds the body of a child who died from breathing smoke.
(b) He sees a beautiful woman having a picnic in the ruins.
(c) He sees that the horses pulling his wagon are in pain.
(d) He loses a clock that he found in one of the houses.

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

5. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?
(a) A new overcoat
(b) Cinderella's gown
(c) Silver boots
(d) Somebody's fur hat

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bertram Rumfoord not want to hear Billy talk about Dresden?

2. Who was not permitted to enter Dresden after the bombing?

3. How does Billy leave the hospital?

4. What does Billy do when Rumfoord tells him that Dresden did need to be bombed?

5. What injury does Billy suffer from the airplane crash?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does he explain the symbolism of his armband?

2. How does Billy Pilgrim die?

3. How did the English prisoners of war view the Americans?

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

5. What did Paul Lazzaro do to the dog that bit him?

6. Why were the German guards in Dresden relieved when they saw the American prisoners of war?

7. What does Howard J. Campbell wear?

8. What do the guards realize after they take the American prisoners back to the slaughterhouse?

9. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

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

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