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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
(b) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(c) He settles down and gets married.
(d) He stops drinking and becomes sober.

2. 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) On the radio in 1968
(d) In the POW camp in 1944

3. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?
(a) Wild Bob
(b) Roland Weary
(c) Bernard O'Hare
(d) Kurt Vonnegut

4. What are the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Aliens that see in four dimensions.
(b) A secret society of optometrists.
(c) People who become Billy's fan club.
(d) A group of anti-war activists.

5. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) The Children's Crusade
(b) Slaughterhouse-Five
(c) So It Goes
(d) The Destruction of Dresden

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?

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

3. How long does Billy stay locked in a railroad boxcar before it starts moving?

4. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?

5. Which college did Vonnegut attend?

(see the answer key)

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