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

2. Who catches Billy at his crime?
(a) Paul Lazzaro
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) A German refugee
(d) Werner Gluck

3. Why did the English prisoners give their latrine to the Americans?
(a) They wanted the Americans to feel at home.
(b) They wanted to be as friendly as possible.
(c) They were disgusted by the Americans' messiness.
(d) They did not need the latrine because they had another one.

4. Where is Dresden located when Vonnegut goes to visit it?
(a) East Germany
(b) West Germany
(c) France
(d) Russia

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Howard J. Campbell?

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

3. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?

4. Where do the American prisoners sleep that night?

5. Why does the Head Englishman envy the Americans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What advice does Paul Lazzaro give to Billy Pilgrim?

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

5. What is echolalia?

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

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

8. Why does Billy travel to New York?

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

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

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