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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billy see in the Carlsbad Caverns when the lights are switched off?
(a) Nothing; he is left in total darkness
(b) About a million bats falling out of an opening
(c) The silhouette of the Ranger's hat
(d) His father's pocket watch glowing in the dark

2. Kurt Vonnegut tells Mary O'Hare that he is going to call his book:
(a) The Children's Crusade
(b) Slaughterhouse-Five
(c) So It Goes
(d) The Destruction of Dresden

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

4. This took place in:
(a) Paris
(b) Dresden
(c) Munich
(d) Rome

5. What does Billy's doctor advise him to do every day?
(a) Take anti-depressants
(b) Take a long walk
(c) Pray
(d) Take a nap

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Billy in 1968?

2. What author does Eliot Rosewater tell Billy about?

3. What did the German soldiers find on Billy when they searched him?

4. What complaint is Billy's doctor trying to relieve?

5. What play do the British officers perform for the Americans?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Tralfamadorans answer Billy's question about being kidnapped?

2. Why does the author keep reminding the reader that Edgar Derby will die in Dresden?

3. What parts of Ilium remind Billy of the ruined towns in World War II?

4. Why do the Tralfamadorans not believe in free will?

5. Where does Billy time travel to when the spaceship hits a time warp?

6. Why were the British officers in this particular camp?

7. Why does Kurt Vonnegut use real information from his life in this book?

8. How did Billy finally get some sleep?

9. What was the Children's Crusade?

10. Where does Billy wake up after falling asleep with the other prisoners in the stone cottage?

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