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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(b) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(c) He does not like fighting.
(d) He has become

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

3. What does Billy see in the Carlsbad Caverns when the lights are switched off?
(a) About a million bats falling out of an opening
(b) His father's pocket watch glowing in the dark
(c) Nothing; he is left in total darkness
(d) The silhouette of the Ranger's hat

4. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?
(a) To a stone cottage filled with other prisoners
(b) To a local brewery where they were fed sausages
(c) To the mayor's house in the nearest village
(d) To the town jail where they were able to wash up

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the American prisoners given showers?

2. By the time they reach Luxembourg, Roland Weary is reduced to wearing. . .

3. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?

4. One of Kurt Vonnegut's war buddies was killed for. . .

5. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?

(see the answer key)

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