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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author compare the march of American prisoners to?
(a) Water flowing downhill into a large river
(b) Ants moving their anthill to a new location
(c) Caribou migrating across the Arctic plains
(d) The young people in the Children's Crusade

2. What does the Marine major tell Billy at the Lion's Club?
(a) Billy should be proud of his son for joining the Green Berets.
(b) Billy should not have allowed himself to be captured.
(c) Chaplains are silly and unnecessary in the army.
(d) Billy was a great soldier and should be proud of that.

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

4. What do humans look like to the Tralfamadorans?
(a) Butterflies
(b) Chimpanzees
(c) Pale worms
(d) Millipedes

5. What does Billy do when he gets drunk at the party in 1961?
(a) He calls up old girlfriends.
(b) He passes out on the living room rug.
(c) He yells at his best friend.
(d) He cheats on his wife.

6. What was Edgar Derby's job before he joined the army?
(a) He was a high school teacher.
(b) He was an advertising executive.
(c) He drove a forklift in a warehouse.
(d) He worked in a toothpaste factory.

7. How does Roland Weary die?
(a) Killed by a German guard
(b) Killed by the other prisoners
(c) By shooting himself in the head
(d) From gangrene in his feet

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

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

10. What do stars look like to Tralfamadorans?
(a) Pulsating circles of light
(b) Glowing bouncing balls
(c) Hexagonal specks of light
(d) Strings of luminous spaghetti

11. Why do the Germans take pictures of Roland and Billy?
(a) They like the Americans
(b) For official records
(c) For propaganda purposes
(d) They are making postcards

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

13. What complaint is Billy's doctor trying to relieve?
(a) Billy is unable to focus on his work.
(b) Billy finds himself weeping for no reason.
(c) Billy has no appetite and has lost too much weight.
(d) It takes Billy hours to fall asleep at night.

14. Why does Billy get a furlough during basic training?
(a) He becomes ill with appendicitis.
(b) His mother suffers a relapse in the hospital.
(c) He asks to visit his wife before going overseas.
(d) His father dies in a hunting accident.

15. What type of book does Vonnegut tell his friend he is writing?
(a) A memoir
(b) An anti-war book
(c) An anti-glacier book
(d) An epic

Short Answer Questions

1. This took place in:

2. How long had the British soldiers been prisoners of war?

3. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?

4. Why did the German soldiers throw Billy into a shrubbery?

5. What does Billy compare the guard's railroad car to?

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