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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. Who wrote a fan letter to Kilgore Trout?

2. Where do the American prisoners sleep that night?

3. When does Billy believe that he will die?

4. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?

5. Who is Billy's digging partner?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does he explain the symbolism of his armband?

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

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

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

7. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

8. How does Edgar react when Billy feeds him?

9. Why, according to the author, is Edgar Derby's speech so remarkable during war?

10. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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