Slaughterhouse Five Quizzes

Slaughterhouse Five Quiz 1

1 Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the bombing of
Berlin

Hiroshima

London

Dresden
2 Vonnegut tracks down Bernard O'Hare to
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

kill him

look up Billy Pilgrim
3 In a hotel room in Boston, Vonnegut reads which Bible story?
the story of Jesus and his trip to Mount Sinai

the story of Adam and Eve and the expulstion from Paradise

the story of Sodom and Gomorrah and the fate of Lot's wife

the story of Esther and how she saved the Jews
4 In that same hotel room, Vonnegut feels like something very strange is happening to
all of the clocks and watches

in New York City

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

Athens, Georgia

Gomorrah, Maine

New York, New York
6 The name of Billy's hometown is an allusion to
the golden age of Greece

the doomed city of Troy

the Old Testament story of Lot

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

Narnia

Mars

the Soviet Union
8 Billy travels through time because
he has a special machine

he is an alien

he has become "unstuck in time"

he has a chip in his brain
9 Billy's physicality could best be described as
short and fat

tall and muscular

tall and weak

tall but strong
10 Billy was trained to be a/an
chaplain's assistant

anti-tank gunner

paratrooper

scout
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
two scouts and an anti-tank gunner

three scouts called the "Three Musketeers"

Bernard O'Hare and Kurt Vonnegut

none of the above
13 Roland Weary could best be described as
fat, stupid, and mean

a scrappy fighter who knows how to survive behind enemy lines

a pacifist

a true and faithful friend
14 Roland imagines that he is
a ninja warrior called Saboro

Napoleon

enemies with Billy, called "devil-child"

good friends with the scouts; they call themselves the "Three Musketeers"
15 Billy and Roland are captured by
German irregulars

an all-female combat unit

SS troops

Russians
16 Roland dies of
a bullet wound

gangrene in his feet

electrocution

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

he's black

he talks and kicks in his sleep

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

backwards

forwards, then backwards

all at once, with all things happening simultaneously
19 Billy's attitude toward everything that befalls him could best be described as
angry and violent

happy and sad

passive and accepting

resentful and defiant
20 Billy's father dies
from suicide

in a hunting accident

at Normandy

at Auschwitz
21 Billy eventually becomes a
optometrist

Catholic priest

gynecologist

ambassador to China
22 The Trafalmadorians put Billy in
a terrarium-like habitat made to look like an earthling's home

an underwater habitat

suspended animation

a dog kennel
23 In his habitat, Billy wears
a clown suit

a business suit

his old military uniform

nothing
24 Billy marries
Svetlana, a Russian girl

Valencia, the daughter of his optometry school's owner and founder

Kurt Vonnegut's sister, Clarice

Montana Wildhack, an alien princess
25 Paul Lazarro is
an Italian doctor who help Billy to escape

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

a high school teacher from Ilium

the pseudonym of Billy's alien kidnapper

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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