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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. According to Bernard O'Hare's notebook, by 2000, the human population of the world will be. . .
(a) Six billion people
(b) Five billion people
(c) Seven billion people
(d) Eleven billion people

2. What do they find in the ruins of a building?
(a) Dozens of unmarked corpses
(b) One small child who survived the fires
(c) An American prisoner who had been missing
(d) The body of a priest clutching a rosary

3. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?
(a) Several people from the nearby town
(b) The American army advancing
(c) The hobo's body in the weeds
(d) More prisoners coming into camp

4. What crime does Billy commit while he is working?
(a) He eats syrup meant for pregnant women.
(b) He steals jewels and puts them in his pocket.
(c) He falls asleep while he is supposed to work.
(d) He kills a guard who tries to steal from him.

5. What connection is there between Werner Gluck and Billy Pilgrim?
(a) They went to the same school.
(b) They both studied Optometry.
(c) They are distant cousins.
(d) They are exactly the same age.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the Head Englishman envy the Americans?

3. What does Billy do after getting to the hospital after the plane crash?

4. Professor Rumfoord is said to resemble. . .

5. Where does Billy work while he is in Dresden?

Short Essay Questions

1. What finally happened to Edgar Derby?

2. Why does Billy travel to New York?

3. How did Tobruk's death change the procedure for recovering corpses?

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

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

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

7. What objects were hidden in Billy's coat?

8. What is echolalia?

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

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

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