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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. Why did Billy, Paul, and Edgar have to go to the theater from the hospital?
(a) To figure out how to built a new latrine
(b) To plan how to survive for the next month
(c) To help elect a leader for their group
(d) To see another performance of Cinderella

2. Where does Billy work while he is in Dresden?
(a) In a factory
(b) In a library
(c) In a railroad station
(d) In a kitchen

3. Why did the Germans who survived the bombing flee from Dresden?
(a) They were afraid the Allies would bomb it again.
(b) There was no food left in the city to eat.
(c) They were afraid of the invading Russians.
(d) There was no supply of water in the city.

4. In New York, Billy stays at which hotel?
(a) Trump Tower
(b) The Royalton Hotel
(c) The Warwick
(d) The Ritz-Carlton

5. Whom else board the plane
(a) Soldiers like Billy
(b) Aliens from Trafalmadore
(c) Some other opthometrists
(d) Government Bureacrats

Short Answer Questions

1. Who catches Billy at his crime?

2. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?

3. What does Vonnegut imagine doing as he flies over the East German cities?

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

5. Who was not permitted to enter Dresden after the bombing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Billy Pilgrim ultimately learn from the Tralfamadorans?

4. Why were the German guards in Dresden relieved when they saw the American prisoners of war?

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

6. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

7. Why does Billy travel to New York?

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

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

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

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