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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. Which sport are Kilgore Trout's aliens most interested in?
(a) Baseball
(b) Basketball
(c) Horse racing
(d) Golf

2. How does Billy start telling people about Tralfamadore?
(a) On a radio show that broadcasts near his hotel.
(b) By going on a television show and speaking to the host.
(c) He writes a book that becomes a bestseller.
(d) He writes a letter to the New York Times.

3. What, according to Paul Lazzaro, is the sweetest thing on Earth?
(a) Family
(b) Revenge
(c) Vanilla Ice Cream
(d) Sex

4. Who is the first person Billy sees when he wakes up after surgery?
(a) His son, Robert
(b) Professor Rumfoord
(c) His daughter, Barbara
(d) Lily Rumfoord

5. What is the one thing that causes Billy to cry during the war?
(a) He sees a beautiful woman having a picnic in the ruins.
(b) He loses a clock that he found in one of the houses.
(c) He sees that the horses pulling his wagon are in pain.
(d) He finds the body of a child who died from breathing smoke.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Billy believe that he will die?

2. What decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?

3. What work does Billy do as a prisoner of war?

4. What is the English translation of "Schlachthof-Funf?"

5. Where do the American prisoners sleep that night?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does he explain the symbolism of his armband?

2. What do the guards realize after they take the American prisoners back to the slaughterhouse?

3. Why does Billy travel to New York?

4. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

5. What story does Billy Pilgrim tell Montana when she begs him for one?

6. What is the meaning of the last line of the novel?

7. What is echolalia?

8. Why was the Polish Farm laborer hung in Dresden?

9. What did Billy Pilgrim ultimately learn from the Tralfamadorans?

10. Why, according to the author, is Edgar Derby's speech so remarkable during war?

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