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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 the corpses start to smell like?
(a) Axle grease
(b) Melted wax
(c) Vinegar and bleach
(d) Mustard gas and roses

2. Who is the first person Billy sees when he wakes up after surgery?
(a) Professor Rumfoord
(b) Lily Rumfoord
(c) His son, Robert
(d) His daughter, Barbara

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

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

5. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?
(a) A man tries to investigate a murder that takes place in the future.
(b) A robot starts to think that he is experiencing time travel.
(c) The lone survivor of an airplane crash begins to experience the memories of those who died.
(d) A man and woman are kidnapped by aliens and displayed in a zoo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom else board the plane

2. Who, according to the author, died two days before he wrote this chapter?

3. What decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?

4. According to this book, by the late nineteen seventies, the United States of America has been. . .

5. What crime does Billy commit while he is working?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

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

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

6. What finally happened to Edgar Derby?

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

8. What is remarkable about Billy while he sleeps in the back of the coffin-shaped wagon in Dresden?

9. How does Edgar react when Billy feeds him?

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

(see the answer keys)

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