Slaughterhouse Five Quizzes

Slaughterhouse Five Quiz 1

1 Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the bombing of
Hiroshima

London

Berlin

Dresden
2 Vonnegut tracks down Bernard O'Hare to
kill him

find O'Hare's wife, with whom Vonnegut had fallen in love

try to remember things that happened in the war, to help Vonnegut write his book on Dresden

look up Billy Pilgrim
3 In a hotel room in Boston, Vonnegut reads which Bible story?
the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the fate of Lot's wife

the story of Esther and how she saved the Jews

the story of Adam and Eve and the expulstion from Paradise

the story of Jesus and his trip to Mount Sinai
4 In that same hotel room, Vonnegut feels like something very strange is happening to
in New York City

all of the clocks and watches

all of the words on his newspaper

to his wife, hundreds of miles away
5 Billy Pilgrim is from the town of
Ilium, New York

New York, New York

Gomorrah, Maine

Athens, Georgia
6 The name of Billy's hometown is an allusion to
the doomed city of Troy

the golden age of Greece

the Old Testament story of Lot

the American Dream
7 Billy believes he has been abducted by aliens from
the Soviet Union

Mars

Narnia

Trafalmadore
8 Billy travels through time because
he has a chip in his brain

he is an alien

he has become "unstuck in time"

he has a special machine
9 Billy's physicality could best be described as
tall and weak

tall but strong

tall and muscular

short and fat
10 Billy was trained to be a/an
paratrooper

anti-tank gunner

scout

chaplain's assistant
11 Billy first gets shipped to Europe in the middle of
the Battle of Stalingrad

the Battle of Britain

the Battle of the Bulge

the Normandy invasion
12 Wandering behind enemy lines, Billy falls in with
three scouts called the "Three Musketeers"

Bernard O'Hare and Kurt Vonnegut

two scouts and an anti-tank gunner

none of the above
13 Roland Weary could best be described as
a pacifist

a true and faithful friend

fat, stupid, and mean

a scrappy fighter who knows how to survive behind enemy lines
14 Roland imagines that he is
good friends with the scouts; they call themselves the "Three Musketeers"

Napoleon

a ninja warrior called Saboro

enemies with Billy, called "devil-child"
15 Billy and Roland are captured by
an all-female combat unit

German irregulars

Russians

SS troops
16 Roland dies of
electrocution

a bullet wound

gangrene in his feet

cancer
17 On the train, none of the men wants to sleep next to Billy because
he's black

he smells

he talks and kicks in his sleep

all of the above
18 Trafalmadorians experience time
forwards, then backwards

all at once, with all things happening simultaneously

backwards, then forwards

backwards
19 Billy's attitude toward everything that befalls him could best be described as
resentful and defiant

happy and sad

passive and accepting

angry and violent
20 Billy's father dies
in a hunting accident

from suicide

at Normandy

at Auschwitz
21 Billy eventually becomes a
Catholic priest

ambassador to China

optometrist

gynecologist
22 The Trafalmadorians put Billy in
an underwater habitat

suspended animation

a dog kennel

a terrarium-like habitat made to look like an earthling's home
23 In his habitat, Billy wears
a business suit

his old military uniform

a clown suit

nothing
24 Billy marries
Valencia, the daughter of his optometry school's owner and founder

Kurt Vonnegut's sister, Clarice

Svetlana, a Russian girl

Montana Wildhack, an alien princess
25 Paul Lazarro is
the pseudonym of Billy's alien kidnapper

a high school teacher from Ilium

an Italian doctor who help Billy to escape

a former car thief who threatens to have people killed after the war

What's the social or political attitude or tradition seems to be the primary focus of the novel?

Vonnegut is anti-war, the tradition he espouses is not to follow blindly.

Asked by Nani B #1326318

Answered by jill d #170087 on 11/6/2023 11:14 AM

An unconventional protagonist for a war novel, Billy is weak, passive, and often ridiculous. He is totally unsuited for war, and he nearly dies wandering behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, he becomes an optometrist,...

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Answered by Aslan on 10/19/2022 4:56 AM

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Predicament of bili pilgrim

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Slaughterhouse Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

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