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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In addition to being Rumfoord's fifth wife, Lily is also. . .
(a) related to Billy Pilgrim
(b) a former go-go dancer
(c) one of his former students
(d) an Air Force officer

2. What do the American prisoners find at the railroad station?
(a) Several people from the nearby town
(b) More prisoners coming into camp
(c) The hobo's body in the weeds
(d) The American army advancing

3. Who is Billy's digging partner?
(a) A Maori prisoner named Tobruk
(b) A Russian prisoner named Dmitri
(c) An English officer from the camp
(d) Kurt Vonnegut

4. What is Kilgore Trout doing when Billy first meets him?
(a) Complaining about his book sales
(b) Yelling at kids to sell newspapers
(c) Eating lunch at a greasy coffee shop
(d) Taking notes for a new novel

5. What distracts Billy from Campbell's talk?
(a) Edgar Derby
(b) Explosions
(c) Heartburn
(d) Sleepiness

6. What happens in The Big Board, the novel written by Kilgore Trout?
(a) A man and woman are kidnapped by aliens and displayed in a zoo.
(b) A man tries to investigate a murder that takes place in the future.
(c) A robot starts to think that he is experiencing time travel.
(d) The lone survivor of an airplane crash begins to experience the memories of those who died.

7. How does Billy help Edgar?
(a) He offers to do Edgar's work.
(b) He gives him a syrup lollipop.
(c) He reads to him at night.
(d) He hides things for him.

8. What happened to Billy's partner?
(a) He was shot for stealing.
(b) He escaped after two days.
(c) He was beaten to death by a guard.
(d) He died from throwing up.

9. Who wrote a fan letter to Kilgore Trout?
(a) Paul Lazzaro
(b) Billy Pilgrim
(c) Eliot Rosewater
(d) Kurt Vonnegut

10. Why did Billy, Paul, and Edgar have to go to the theater from the hospital?
(a) To help elect a leader for their group
(b) To see another performance of Cinderella
(c) To plan how to survive for the next month
(d) To figure out how to built a new latrine

11. Who becomes the Head American?
(a) Billy Pilgrim
(b) Edgar Derby
(c) A British Officer
(d) Paul Lazzaro

12. Of those below, who was not busy in Dresden after the bombing?
(a) Edgar Derby
(b) Bernard O'Hare
(c) Billy Pilgrim
(d) Werner Gluck

13. What does the author call the places where bodies were found in Dresden?
(a) Body holes
(b) Corpse mines
(c) Corpse caches
(d) Ground zero

14. What happens while Billy is still unconscious in the hospital?
(a) His wife dies.
(b) Reagan is elected president.
(c) His daughter gets married.
(d) His son joins the army.

15. How many novels has Kilgore Trout written?
(a) Two dozen
(b) At least seventy-five
(c) Twenty-five
(d) Three hundred

Short Answer Questions

1. What response does Campbell get from most of the prisoners?

2. What do Billy, Werner, and Edgar find instead of a kitchen?

3. Who is the first person Billy sees when he wakes up after surgery?

4. When does Billy believe that he will die?

5. Why does Billy return to Dresden after the war ends?

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