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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 Paul Lazzaro's one friend in the war?
(a) Roland Weary
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Bernard O'Hare
(d) Billy Pilgrim

2. What does Billy find outside the inn?
(a) A coffin-shaped wagon and two horses
(b) Paul Lazzaro with a knife in his hand
(c) The bodies of two German soldiers
(d) One of the German refugees

3. Why are the prisoners of war taken back to Dresden after the bombing?
(a) There is no other place to put them
(b) To salvage weapons from the buildings
(c) To look for survivors of the fires
(d) To dig for bodies in the rubble

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who died a month earlier than that?

2. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?

3. What does the Head Englishman give the American soldiers in the theater?

4. Where does Billy time travel to while he is on the airplane?

5. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

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

4. What finally happened to Edgar Derby?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Howard J. Campbell wear?

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