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

2. What did Vonnegut think Dresden looked like?
(a) Oz
(b) Heaven
(c) New York
(d) Indianapolis

3. Who is Bertram Rumfoord?
(a) Another survivor of the Dresden bombing
(b) Billy Pilgrim's father-in-law
(c) Another optometrist in the airplane crash
(d) A professor and official Air Force Historian

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

5. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?
(a) A cocktail ring
(b) A sapphire necklace
(c) A tennis bracelet
(d) Diamond earrings

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy see in the bookstore in Times Square?

2. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?

3. Who does Barbara Pilgrim say she would like to kill?

4. What, according to Paul Lazzaro, is the sweetest thing on Earth?

5. Who catches Billy at his crime?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Billy Pilgrim die?

2. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

3. Why was the Polish Farm laborer hung in Dresden?

4. What does Howard J. Campbell wear?

5. Why does Billy travel to New York?

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

7. What story does Billy Pilgrim tell Montana when she begs him for one?

8. What is Billy Pilgrim wearing by the time he reaches Dresden?

9. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

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

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