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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?
(a) He was trying to escape from the POW camp.
(b) He was making fun of Billy Pilgrim.
(c) He was mimicking one of the other guards.
(d) He said something that the German did not like.

2. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) The young people in the Children's Crusade
(b) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(c) Ants moving their anthill to a new location
(d) Water flowing downhill into a large river

3. How does Roland Weary die?
(a) Killed by a German guard
(b) From gangrene in his feet
(c) By shooting himself in the head
(d) Killed by the other prisoners

4. What does the hobo in Billy's railroad boxcar tell him?
(a) That he's been hungry for weeks.
(b) That he knows him from somewhere.
(c) That he has been in worse situations than this.
(d) The secrets of Trafalmadore.

5. Where is Billy when he wakes up from his dream?
(a) Waiting for his wife to wake up and get dressed
(b) Back in the Carlsbad Caverns, in the dark
(c) Sitting on his couch, watching a war movie
(d) In a mental ward, three years after the war

Short Answer Questions

1. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?

2. What is Paul Lazzaro most proud of?

3. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?

4. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?

5. What name does Roland Weary give to the group of lost soldiers?

(see the answer key)

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