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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupts Billy's attempt at napping?
(a) A man comes selling magazine subscriptions.
(b) His daughter calls on the telephone.
(c) The neighbor's dog starts barking.
(d) The Tralfamadorans show up.

2. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp
(b) A colonel who lost his entire regiment
(c) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(d) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies

3. When was Billy kidnapped by the Tralfamadorans?
(a) During the march in 1944
(b) After dinner in 1957
(c) One morning in 1945
(d) On a night in 1967

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

5. What does Vonnegut compare Dresden to after it has been bombed?
(a) A huge parking lot
(b) The crater of a volcano
(c) A forest fire
(d) The surface of the Moon

Short Answer Questions

1. How long had the British soldiers been prisoners of war?

2. Who catches Billy at his crime?

3. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?

4. What does Billy do after getting to the hospital after the plane crash?

5. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?

(see the answer key)

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