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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 decision does Billy come to while he is in the hospital after surgery?
(a) Never to get married again
(b) Never to get into another airplane
(c) To protest the Vietnam War
(d) To tell the world about Tralfamadore

2. What present does Billy give his wife at their eighteenth wedding anniversary?
(a) A sapphire necklace
(b) Diamond earrings
(c) A tennis bracelet
(d) A cocktail ring

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

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

5. Which Earthling do the Tralfamadorans find the most interesting?
(a) Billy Pilgrim
(b) Jesus Christ
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Kilgore Trout

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Billy do after getting to the hospital after the plane crash?

2. How does Billy find out that the war is over?

3. Where does Billy work while he is in Dresden?

4. What connection is there between Werner Gluck and Billy Pilgrim?

5. Who is Bertram Rumfoord?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Billy travel to New York?

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

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

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

6. Why were there so many girls at the slaughterhouse?

7. How did Tobruk's death change the procedure for recovering corpses?

8. What is echolalia?

9. How does Edgar react when Billy feeds him?

10. Why is Kilgore Trout shadowing Billy at the anniversary party?

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