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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Vonnegut dedicates the book to Mary O'Hare and Gerhard Müller. Who is Gerhard Müller?
(a) A taxi-driver in Dresde
(b) A guard in the prison camp
(c) The author of a book on massacres
(d) A policeman in Chicago

2. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) Water flowing downhill into a large river
(b) Ants moving their anthill to a new location
(c) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(d) The young people in the Children's Crusade

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?

2. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?

3. What happens to Billy in 1968?

4. What does the Tralfamadoran compare a moment in time to?

5. What is Billy's position in the war?

(see the answer key)

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