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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who rescues Billy from being beaten by Roland Weary?
(a) American Army Scouts
(b) The Tralfamadorans
(c) Bernard O'Hare
(d) A patrol of German soldiers

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

4. What does his father notice about Vonnegut's books?
(a) None of them have been published.
(b) None of them have villains.
(c) They are all about the war.
(d) Vonnegut has burned every one of them.

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Vonnegut study in college?

2. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?

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

4. What happened when Lot's wife looked back on Sodom and Gomorrah?

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

(see the answer key)

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