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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. How does Billy leave the hospital?
(a) He goes to stay with Bertram and Lily at their home.
(b) He leaves with Barbara and Robert.
(c) He sneaks out while the nurse is not watching.
(d) He time travels away to Tralfamadore.

2. How many novels has Kilgore Trout written?
(a) Twenty-five
(b) At least seventy-five
(c) Three hundred
(d) Two dozen

3. Who was in the camp hospital with Billy when he woke up?
(a) Edgar Derby and Paul Lazzaro
(b) Roland Weary and Edgar Derby
(c) No one
(d) A British Officer

4. What happened to Billy's partner?
(a) He died from throwing up.
(b) He escaped after two days.
(c) He was shot for stealing.
(d) He was beaten to death by a guard.

5. What do they find in the ruins of a building?
(a) Dozens of unmarked corpses
(b) The body of a priest clutching a rosary
(c) An American prisoner who had been missing
(d) One small child who survived the fires

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vonnegut think Dresden looked like?

2. What does Bertram Rumfoord tell Lily about Billy?

3. How does Billy start telling people about Tralfamadore?

4. According to this book, by the late nineteen seventies, the United States of America has been. . .

5. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

4. What does Howard J. Campbell wear?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

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