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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is unique about the coat Billy Pilgrim gets from the Germans?
(a) It was made to be worn by a woman.
(b) It's the only coat from a civilian.
(c) It has silver buttons on the collar and cuffs.
(d) It is the only one made from blue fabric.

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

4. What did the Polish song remind Billy about?
(a) A vacation he took once to Poland
(b) The accent of the Polish prisoners of war
(c) How much he misses being with his wife
(d) Seeing a Polish farm laborer hung in Dresden

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Billy know when he boarded the airplane to Montreal?

2. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:

3. Why did the Germans who survived the bombing flee from Dresden?

4. What do humans look like to the Tralfamadorans?

5. What surprised the British officers most about the American prisoners?

(see the answer key)

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