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

2. Who finds Billy after the airplane crash?
(a) Two Austrian ski instructors
(b) A ranger from a nearby station
(c) A boyscout troop hiking in the woods
(d) The barbershop quartet

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

4. According to Bernard O'Hare's notebook, by 2000, the human population of the world will be. . .
(a) Eleven billion people
(b) Five billion people
(c) Seven billion people
(d) Six billion people

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the corpses start to smell like?

3. How do the Tralfamadorans view every creature and plant in the universe?

4. What crime does Billy commit while he is working?

5. How long does Billy stay in Dresden before it is bombed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Billy's wife, Valencia, die?

3. Why do people think Billy is brain damaged after his surgery?

4. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

5. How did the English prisoners of war view the Americans?

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

7. What does the phrase "so it goes" mean?

8. What finally happened to Edgar Derby?

9. Why does Billy travel to New York?

10. What advice does Paul Lazzaro give to Billy Pilgrim?

(see the answer keys)

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