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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. What is the name of the barbershop quartet who perform on the airplane?

2. Where did the diamond in Valencia's engagement ring come from?

3. Who broke Paul Lazzaro's arm?

4. Why did the English prisoners give their latrine to the Americans?

5. Of those below, who was not busy in Dresden after the bombing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

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

3. Why does Billy travel to New York?

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

5. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

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

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

8. Why is Kilgore Trout shadowing Billy at the anniversary party?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay comparing Slaughterhouse-Five with another novel or book describing events from World War II. Pick one of the following topics as a focus in your essay:

a) Realism about the war.

b) Symbolism.

c) How personal experiences affect writing.

d) The author's attitude toward war.

Essay Topic 2

Compare Vonnegut's story structure with conventional novels. How does his free associative writing affect the story that he is telling?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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