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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Billy time travel to after the Carlbad Caverns?

2. Where does Billy find himself the morning after he becomes drunk at the party?

3. What was it about the Grand Canyon that scared Billy?

4. What, according to the Tralfamadoran, is a concept that only appears on Earth?

5. What does Vonnegut tell his sons about massacres?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the story of Sodom and Gomorrah have to do with Vonnegut's book about Dresden?

2. What happened to the army scouts who left Billy and Roland behind?

3. Name some of the places in time that Billy travels to in this chapter.

4. What does Billy extrapolate happening after the end of the war movie he is watching on the night before his daughter's wedding?

5. Why do the soliders not want Billy to sleep near them?

6. How did Billy finally get some sleep?

7. Where were the American prisoners of war kept as they were captured?

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

9. Why do the Germans need to record the names of the prisoners?

10. What was the Children's Crusade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What would you say was Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s purpose in writing this novel? What is the main message of the story? Support your conclusion with quotes or examples from the novel, or interviews with the author.

Essay Topic 2

Howard J. Campbell appears in another novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, called Mother Night. Compare the character as depicted in that novel with the Howard J. Campbell that appears in Slaughterhouse-Five.

Essay Topic 3

How does Vonnegut's version of World War II differ from the usual view that we get of the war? Why does he write about this version? Write an essay that analyzes Vonnegut's attitude toward World War II as shown in Slaughterhouse-Five.

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