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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Vonnegut study in college?
(a) Creative Writing
(b) Philosophy
(c) Anthropology
(d) Political science

3. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?
(a) That they are a necessary part of human history.
(b) Not to be involved in them, or take glee from them.
(c) To run away from them if at all possible.
(d) That they are excusable if done for a good reason.

4. Which person dies on the railroad trip in Germany?
(a) Paul Lazzaro
(b) Bernard O'Hare
(c) The hobo
(d) Edgar Derby

5. What is the only book Billy can read on the trip to Tralfamadore?
(a) How Green Was My Valley
(b) The Valley of the Dolls
(c) The Dollhouse Murders
(d) The Sorrow and the Pity

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?

2. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?

3. What are the Tralfamadorans?

4. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .

5. Why does Mary O'Hare get angry at Kurt Vonnegut?

(see the answer key)

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