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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Cinderella
(c) The Trojan War
(d) Sleeping Beauty
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) Where his mother is.
(d) How his life will end.
3. What was the prized possession of the Commander who captured Billy and Roland?
(a) His ancient rifle
(b) His sheepskin jacket
(c) His golden boots
(d) His pocket watch
4. Why does one of the Germans beat up an American prisoner of war?
(a) He was mimicking one of the other guards.
(b) He was making fun of Billy Pilgrim.
(c) He said something that the German did not like.
(d) He was trying to escape from the POW camp.
5. What is unusual about Billy Pilgrim?
(a) He is an optometrist who is blind.
(b) He has become
(c) He cannot remember his war experiences.
(d) He does not like fighting.
6. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?
(a) Time
(b) Love
(c) Charity
(d) Free will
7. What does Billy dream about in the hospital?
(a) Flying over the battlefield
(b) Marching next to Roland Weary
(c) Swimming in the Hudson River
(d) That he is a giraffe
8. When does Billy make his first public speech?
(a) In the POW camp in 1944
(b) To his high school class in 1940
(c) At a Lion's Club dinner in 1957
(d) On the radio in 1968
9. Who is "Princess?"
(a) The woman in Roland's picture
(b) A German shepherd dog
(c) Billy's first girlfriend
(d) Roland Weary's wife
10. What are the subjects of Roland Weary's most treasured picture?
(a) His car and his rifle
(b) A naked woman and a Shetland pony
(c) His mother and his sister
(d) His best friends back in the United States
11. How many days does Billy travel in the railroad cars before arriving at the camp?
(a) Six days
(b) Five days
(c) Ten days
(d) Twelve days
12. What happens when Billy tries to sleep in the railroad car?
(a) The railroad car starts moving too fast to sleep.
(b) The other soldiers tell him to go lie down someplace else.
(c) The guards start searching through the railroad car.
(d) Someone in the darkness starts screaming loudly.
13. How does Billy's son Robert straighten out his life?
(a) He stops drinking and becomes sober.
(b) He settles down and gets married.
(c) He gets a job delivering phone books.
(d) He becomes a Green Beret in Vietnam.
14. Where did the soldiers take Billy and Roland?
(a) To the mayor's house in the nearest village
(b) To the town jail where they were able to wash up
(c) To a local brewery where they were fed sausages
(d) To a stone cottage filled with other prisoners
15. Why does Vonnegut stop at the Hudson River on the way to see his friend Bernard O'Hare?
(a) It reminds him of the Danube River.
(b) His daughter had never seen a river before.
(c) He wants to see if he can catch a trout.
(d) They want to go swimming in the water.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Billy Pilgrim learn to swim?
2. Vonnegut notes that more people were killed in Dresden than. . .
3. What do the Tralfamadorans say when a person dies?
4. What do the Tralfamadorans do with Billy?
5. Why is Billy taken to the hospital during the play?
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