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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What work does Billy do as a prisoner of war?
(a) He cleans and fills jars with syrup.
(b) He censors letters.
(c) He prepares meals.
(d) He counts passengers.

2. What does the Head Englishman give the American soldiers in the theater?
(a) A map of the prison camp
(b) A lecture on hygiene
(c) Boxes of pears and apples
(d) A radio tuned to an English station

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

4. What did the corpses start to smell like?
(a) Axle grease
(b) Mustard gas and roses
(c) Vinegar and bleach
(d) Melted wax

5. What does the barbershop quartet at the anniversary party remind Billy of?
(a) The four guards who survived the bombing in Dresden
(b) The barbershop quartet who died in the airplane crash
(c) The ushers at his wedding eighteen years earlier
(d) The pallbearers at the funeral for is father

6. Why does the Head Englishman envy the Americans?
(a) They are moving out from the camp to Dresden.
(b) The German guards like the Americans better.
(c) They are going to be exchanged soon and go home.
(d) They are young and will forget war sooner.

7. What is Paul Lazzaro most proud of?
(a) He never told a lie to another.
(b) He was able to fight as a boxer.
(c) He never stole anything in his life.
(d) He never hurt an innocent bystander.

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

9. Where is Dresden located when Vonnegut goes to visit it?
(a) West Germany
(b) East Germany
(c) France
(d) Russia

10. Who catches Billy at his crime?
(a) Werner Gluck
(b) Paul Lazzaro
(c) A German refugee
(d) Edgar Derby

11. What is the English translation of "Schlachthof-Funf?"
(a) Fun-House
(b) Sausage-Factory
(c) Surgical-Office
(d) Slaughterhouse-Five

12. What does Billy do when Rumfoord tells him that Dresden did need to be bombed?
(a) He gets angry.
(b) He starts crying.
(c) He agrees.
(d) He says it was a pity.

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

14. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?
(a) A new overcoat
(b) Somebody's fur hat
(c) Silver boots
(d) Cinderella's gown

15. Why did the Englishman say that Dresden would never be bombed?
(a) Because it was too far from the border
(b) Because the prisoners of war were there
(c) Because it was a neutral city
(d) Because it had no war industries

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was in the camp hospital with Billy when he woke up?

2. What happened to Billy's partner?

3. Why are the prisoners of war taken back to Dresden after the bombing?

4. What is the name of the barbershop quartet who perform on the airplane?

5. What does the author call the places where bodies were found in Dresden?

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