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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 do the American pilots do when they see the prisoners of war walking through Dresden after the bombing?
(a) Drop packages of food
(b) Drop leaflets about freedom
(c) Stop to rescue them
(d) Fire bullets at them
2. Where is Dresden located when Vonnegut goes to visit it?
(a) France
(b) West Germany
(c) East Germany
(d) Russia
3. Why did the English prisoners give their latrine to the Americans?
(a) They wanted the Americans to feel at home.
(b) They wanted to be as friendly as possible.
(c) They were disgusted by the Americans' messiness.
(d) They did not need the latrine because they had another one.
4. Who is Bertram Rumfoord?
(a) Billy Pilgrim's father-in-law
(b) Another optometrist in the airplane crash
(c) A professor and official Air Force Historian
(d) Another survivor of the Dresden bombing
5. Who was Paul Lazzaro's one friend in the war?
(a) Roland Weary
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) Billy Pilgrim
(d) Bernard O'Hare
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?
2. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?
3. What did the Polish song remind Billy about?
4. What response does Campbell get from most of the prisoners?
5. What does Vonnegut compare Dresden to after it has been bombed?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do people think Billy is brain damaged after his surgery?
2. Why does Billy travel to New York?
3. Why were the German guards in Dresden relieved when they saw the American prisoners of war?
4. What does Bernard's article about human population reveal about life?
5. What do the guards realize after they take the American prisoners back to the slaughterhouse?
6. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?
7. Why is Dresden so dark at night?
8. How does Billy's wife, Valencia, die?
9. How did Tobruk's death change the procedure for recovering corpses?
10. Why, according to the author, is Edgar Derby's speech so remarkable during war?
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