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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) In the POW camp in 1944
(b) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(c) On the radio in 1968
(d) To his high school class in 1940

2. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(b) He settles down and gets married.
(c) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(d) He stops drinking and becomes sober.

3. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?
(a) To a local brewery where they were fed sausages
(b) To a stone cottage filled with other prisoners
(c) To the town jail where they were able to wash up
(d) To the mayor's house in the nearest village

4. What is Billy's position in the war?
(a) Chaplain's assistant
(b) Second lieutenant
(c) Corporal in Support Services
(d) Private in the Infantry

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?

2. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

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

4. What, according to Vonnegut, will be the end of this book?

5. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?

(see the answer key)

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