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

2. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?
(a) Sleepiness
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Explosions
(d) Heartburn

3. Who offers the American prisoners shelter after the bombing?
(a) An abbess in a nunnery
(b) A blind innkeeper
(c) A factory owner
(d) The Red Cross

4. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?
(a) His daughter gets married.
(b) His son joins the army.
(c) His wife dies.
(d) Reagan is elected president.

5. When does Billy believe that he will die?
(a) February 13th, 1976
(b) January 25th, 1982
(c) September 17th, 1979
(d) October 12th, 1980

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kilgore Trout doing when Billy first meets him?

2. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?

3. Where do the American prisoners sleep that night?

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

5. Why did the Germans who survived the bombing flee from Dresden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Billy become confused when the skiers arrive to rescue him after the plane crash?

2. Why does Billy travel to New York?

3. Why, according to the author, is Edgar Derby's speech so remarkable during war?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is echolalia?

10. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

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