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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Billy stay locked in a railroad boxcar before it starts moving?
(a) Ten hours
(b) Two days
(c) Five days
(d) One day

2. How many days does Billy travel in the railroad cars before arriving at the camp?
(a) Ten days
(b) Six days
(c) Five days
(d) Twelve days

3. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?
(a) What life on Trafalmadore is like.
(b) How his life will end.
(c) Where his mother is.
(d) Where they are and how they got there.

4. How did Vonnegut once write an outline for a book?
(a) Typing on a continuous roll of paper
(b) In the back of a flatbed truck
(c) On a matchbook cover by candlelight
(d) On a roll of wallpaper with a crayon

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

3. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?

4. What is the first thing both the Germans and the Tralfamadorans have Billy do?

5. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?

(see the answer key)

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