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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Billy start telling people about Tralfamadore?
(a) He writes a book that becomes a bestseller.
(b) By going on a television show and speaking to the host.
(c) On a radio show that broadcasts near his hotel.
(d) He writes a letter to the New York Times.

2. Who was Paul Lazzaro's one friend in the war?
(a) Roland Weary
(b) Billy Pilgrim
(c) Edgar Derby
(d) Bernard O'Hare

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

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

5. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) So It Goes
(b) The Destruction of Dresden
(c) The Children's Crusade
(d) Slaughterhouse-Five

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?

2. What did Vonnegut study in college?

3. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?

4. This took place in:

5. What was Mackay's opinion about the Children's Crusade?

(see the answer key)

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