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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 injury does Billy suffer from the airplane crash?
(a) He has broken his leg.
(b) He has broken four ribs.
(c) He has a fractured skull.
(d) He has only cuts and scratches.

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

3. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?
(a) Billy found it in Dresden
(b) The coat Billy wore in the POW camp
(c) It was an heirloom in Billy's family
(d) Her father gave it to Billy

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?

2. According to Bernard O'Hare's notebook, by 2000, the human population of the world will be. . .

3. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?

4. What is the source of the "animal magnetism" that Billy feels in the hospital?

5. Why did the Englishman say that Dresden would never be bombed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

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

3. What is echolalia?

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

5. What does Bernard's article about human population reveal about life?

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

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

8. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

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

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

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