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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(b) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.
(c) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.
(d) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.

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

3. Where in the city are the prisoners of war kept during the bombing?
(a) In a baby food factory
(b) In a deserted zoo
(c) In a slaughterhouse
(d) In an empty school

4. What happens to Billy in 1968?
(a) He is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery.
(b) His father gets into a car accident and nearly dies.
(c) He survives a plane crash and his wife dies.
(d) His children try to get him committed to a mental ward.

5. What was Edgar Derby's job before he joined the army?
(a) He worked in a toothpaste factory.
(b) He was an advertising executive.
(c) He was a high school teacher.
(d) He drove a forklift in a warehouse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the Tralfamadorans?

3. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?

4. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?

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

(see the answer key)

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