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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Barbara Pilgrim?
(a) Billy's second wife, who left him for another man.
(b) Billy's daughter, who also married an optometrist.
(c) Billy's mother, who is in a nursing home.
(d) Billy's first wife, who died in a car accident.

2. What question does Billy ask the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Where they are and how they got there.
(b) What life on Trafalmadore is like.
(c) How his life will end.
(d) Where his mother is.

3. Where does Billy time travel to while in the showers?
(a) He returns to the Lion's Club dinner in 1957.
(b) He becomes an infant being washed by his mother.
(c) He recalls nearly drowning in the swimming pool.
(d) He goes back to the night when he was kidnapped.

4. Where does Billy time travel to while he is on the airplane?
(a) Forward to the moment when he first meets Montana Wildhack
(b) Back to the time he spent with Roland Weary before being captured
(c) Back to the moment when he proposed to his wife, Valencia
(d) Forward to the time when his daughter finds him in a cold house

5. What connection is there between Werner Gluck and Billy Pilgrim?
(a) They are exactly the same age.
(b) They are distant cousins.
(c) They both studied Optometry.
(d) They went to the same school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do after getting to the hospital after the plane crash?

2. What are the Tralfamadorans?

3. Why does the Head Englishman envy the Americans?

4. Why did Billy, Paul, and Edgar have to go to the theater from the hospital?

5. Why do the Germans laugh at Billy's coat?

(see the answer key)

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