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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. How does Billy leave the hospital?

2. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?

3. Why did Billy, Paul, and Edgar have to go to the theater from the hospital?

4. Who guards Billy and Edgar Derby as they work in the slaughterhouse?

5. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Howard J. Campbell wear?

2. What is echolalia?

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

4. What finally happened to Edgar Derby?

5. What is the meaning of the last line of the novel?

6. What advice does Paul Lazzaro give to Billy Pilgrim?

7. Why do people think Billy is brain damaged after his surgery?

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

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

10. What did Paul Lazzaro do to the dog that bit him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research the life of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., particularly his experiences during World War II. Write an essay describing how his experiences may have influenced his writing.

Essay Topic 2

The Tralfamadorans have a very different view of time than we do. Write an essay that speculates on how humans will view time in 500 years. Will we still look at it the same way?

Essay Topic 3

Howard J. Campbell appears in another novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, called Mother Night. Compare the character as depicted in that novel with the Howard J. Campbell that appears in Slaughterhouse-Five.

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