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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?

2. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?

3. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?

4. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?

5. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Billy wake up after falling asleep with the other prisoners in the stone cottage?

2. Why is it unusual for Kurt Vonnegut to appear in this book as a character?

3. Why do the soliders not want Billy to sleep near them?

4. How did Billy finally get some sleep?

5. Describe the structure of a Tralfamadoran novel.

6. According to the aliens in Kilgore Trout's book, what is the flaw in the story of Christ?

7. Where were the American prisoners of war kept as they were captured?

8. Name some of the places in time that Billy travels to in this chapter.

9. How do the Tralfamadorans answer Billy's question about being kidnapped?

10. Why does Vonnegut say this book will be "jumbled and jangled?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Vonnegut's version of World War II differ from the usual view that we get of the war? Why does he write about this version? Write an essay that analyzes Vonnegut's attitude toward World War II as shown in Slaughterhouse-Five.

Essay Topic 2

Research and write a paper describing the bombing of Dresden in 1944.

Essay Topic 3

How does luck figure into Billy's Pilgrim's life? Is he a lucky person or an unlucky person? Use examples from the novel to argue your thesis.

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