Slaughterhouse Five Study Guide

1. <i>Slaughterhouse Five</i> 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 golden age of Greece
• the Old Testament story of Lot

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 special machine
• he has a chip in his brain
• he has become "unstuck in time"
• he is an alien

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