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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Billy in 1968?
(a) He is diagnosed with cancer and undergoes surgery.
(b) His father gets into a car accident and nearly dies.
(c) He survives a plane crash and his wife dies.
(d) His children try to get him committed to a mental ward.

2. Who dies in the railroad boxcars?
(a) Wild Bob
(b) Bernard O'Hare
(c) Roland Weary
(d) Kurt Vonnegut

3. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(b) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.
(c) They want to go swimming in the water.
(d) It reminds him of the Danube River.

4. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?
(a) Rejoice!
(b) That's a pity.
(c) So it goes.
(d) No one really dies.

5. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?
(a) Cinderella
(b) The Trojan War
(c) Hamlet
(d) Sleeping Beauty

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Howard J. Campbell?

2. What is unusual about the war movie Billy watches?

3. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?

4. What does Campbell offer the prisoners if they join the Nazis?

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

(see the answer key)

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