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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) An anti-glacier book
(b) An anti-war book
(c) An epic
(d) A memoir

3. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.
(b) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.
(c) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.
(d) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.

4. What does Billy do after he leaves the hospital?
(a) He writes a book about his war experiences.
(b) He goes back to Dresden to see what it looks like now.
(c) He tells a radio audience that he was kidnapped by aliens.
(d) He leaves his wife for a movie star named Montana Wildhack.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does one of the German soldiers do to Roland Weary?

2. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .

3. By the time they reach Luxembourg, Roland Weary is reduced to wearing. . .

4. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?

5. What job did Vonnegut have when he was in college?

(see the answer key)

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