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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. What does Billy find in the theater to wear?

2. What do the American pilots do when they see the prisoners of war walking through Dresden after the bombing?

3. What does the Head Englishman give the American soldiers in the theater?

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

5. What does Vonnegut compare Dresden to after it has been bombed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dresden so dark at night?

2. What is echolalia?

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why were the German guards in Dresden relieved when they saw the American prisoners of war?

9. What does Montana Wildhack wear around her neck?

10. What does Bernard's article about human population reveal about life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Tralfamadoran views of life and death with different religious philosophies.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Vonnegut's story structure with conventional novels. How does his free associative writing affect the story that he is telling?

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