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Slaughterhouse Five Quiz 1

  • 1. Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the bombing of
    •     Berlin
    •     London
    •     Hiroshima
    •     Dresden

  • 2. Vonnegut tracks down Bernard O'Hare to
    •     look up Billy Pilgrim
    •     kill him
    •     try to remember things that happened in the war, to help Vonnegut write his book on Dresden
    •     find O'Hare's wife, with whom Vonnegut had fallen in love

  • 3. In a hotel room in Boston, Vonnegut reads which Bible story?
    •     the story of Adam and Eve and the expulstion from Paradise
    •     the story of Esther and how she saved the Jews
    •     the story of Jesus and his trip to Mount Sinai
    •     the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the fate of Lot's wife

  • 4. In that same hotel room, Vonnegut feels like something very strange is happening to
    •     to his wife, hundreds of miles away
    •     in New York City
    •     all of the clocks and watches
    •     all of the words on his newspaper

  • 5. Billy Pilgrim is from the town of
    •     Ilium, New York
    •     Athens, Georgia
    •     Gomorrah, Maine
    •     New York, New York

  • 6. The name of Billy's hometown is an allusion to
    •     the American Dream
    •     the doomed city of Troy
    •     the Old Testament story of Lot
    •     the golden age of Greece

  • 7. Billy believes he has been abducted by aliens from
    •     Narnia
    •     Trafalmadore
    •     Mars
    •     the Soviet Union

  • 8. Billy travels through time because
    •     he has a chip in his brain
    •     he has become "unstuck in time"
    •     he is an alien
    •     he has a special machine

  • 9. Billy's physicality could best be described as
    •     tall and muscular
    •     tall but strong
    •     tall and weak
    •     short and fat

  • 10. Billy was trained to be a/an
    •     paratrooper
    •     anti-tank gunner
    •     chaplain's assistant
    •     scout

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