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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?
(a) They were angry at him for smiling so much.
(b) So they could take a picture of his
(c) They wanted to play hide and seek with him.
(d) They wanted him to help with the gardening.

5. What does Barbara think is wrong with Billy when she finds him in his cold house?
(a) She thinks he is getting senile.
(b) She thinks he got pneumonia.
(c) She thinks he is too proud to ask for money.
(d) She thinks he is distracted by grief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?

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

3. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?

4. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

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

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