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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(b) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon
(c) In the back of a flatbed truck
(d) On a matchbook cover by candlelight

2. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?
(a) Spits on his shoulder
(b) Mocks his accent
(c) Beats him with a rifle
(d) Takes away his uniform

3. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?
(a) The author of a book on massacres
(b) A policeman in Chicago
(c) A guard in the prison camp
(d) A taxi-driver in Dresde

4. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) An epic
(b) A memoir
(c) An anti-glacier book
(d) An anti-war book

5. What does Billy's doctor advise him to do every day?
(a) Take a long walk
(b) Take anti-depressants
(c) Take a nap
(d) Pray

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?

2. When does Billy make his first public speech?

3. What does his father notice about Vonnegut's books?

4. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?

5. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?

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