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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .
(a) during the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
(b) have died from cancer in the last two years.
(c) than died in the Concentration Camps.
(d) have ever died in automobile accidents.

3. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?
(a) As a gift that should be treasured like gold.
(b) Like a river that flows in one direction only.
(c) As permanent fixtures, like the Rocky Mountains.
(d) It's a nuisance; time goes too slowly.

4. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?
(a) In the backseat of his car
(b) In a prisoner of war camp
(c) On Tralfamadore
(d) On the front lawn of the house

5. What did Vonnegut study in college?
(a) Philosophy
(b) Anthropology
(c) Creative Writing
(d) Political science

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?

2. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

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

4. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?

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

(see the answer key)

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