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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 connection is there between Werner Gluck and Billy Pilgrim?
(a) They are distant cousins.
(b) They are exactly the same age.
(c) They both studied Optometry.
(d) They went to the same school.

2. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?
(a) The ushers at his wedding eighteen years earlier
(b) The barbershop quartet who died in the airplane crash
(c) The pallbearers at the funeral for is father
(d) The four guards who survived the bombing in Dresden

3. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?
(a) A robot starts to think that he is experiencing time travel.
(b) A man and woman are kidnapped by aliens and displayed in a zoo.
(c) A man tries to investigate a murder that takes place in the future.
(d) The lone survivor of an airplane crash begins to experience the memories of those who died.

4. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?
(a) Explosions
(b) Sleepiness
(c) Heartburn
(d) Edgar Derby

5. What decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?
(a) Never to get married again
(b) To tell the world about Tralfamadore
(c) Never to get into another airplane
(d) To protest the Vietnam War

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the English translation of "Schlachthof-Funf?"

2. Why does Bertram Rumfoord not want to hear Billy talk about Dresden?

3. What does Bertram Rumfoord tell Lily about Billy?

4. What time of year is it when the war ends?

5. What crime does Billy commit while he is working?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

3. What does the phrase "so it goes" mean?

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

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

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

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

8. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

9. What finally happened to Edgar Derby?

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

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