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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) Flying over the battlefield
(b) That he is a giraffe
(c) Marching next to Roland Weary
(d) Swimming in the Hudson River

2. Who is Wild Bob?
(a) The name of a German shepherd in a POW camp
(b) A German guard who loved American cowboy movies
(c) The hobo Billy meets in the railroad car
(d) A colonel who lost his entire regiment

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

4. 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 is distracted by grief.
(c) She thinks he is too proud to ask for money.
(d) She thinks he got pneumonia.

5. What is Billy's position in the war?
(a) Corporal in Support Services
(b) Private in the Infantry
(c) Chaplain's assistant
(d) Second lieutenant

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Billy taken to the hospital during the play?

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

3. How many days does Billy travel in the railroad cars before arriving at the camp?

4. How do the Tralfamadorans view time?

5. What was Edgar Derby's job before he joined the army?

(see the answer key)

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