Slaughterhouse Five Quizzes

Slaughterhouse Five Quiz 1

1 Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the bombing of
London

Hiroshima

Dresden

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

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

look up Billy Pilgrim

try to remember things that happened in the war, to help Vonnegut write his book on Dresden
3 In a hotel room in Boston, Vonnegut reads which Bible story?
the story of Esther and how she saved the Jews

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

the story of Jesus and his trip to Mount Sinai

the story of Adam and Eve and the expulstion from Paradise
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

to his wife, hundreds of miles away

all of the words on his newspaper
5 Billy Pilgrim is from the town of
New York, New York

Ilium, New York

Athens, Georgia

Gomorrah, Maine
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
the Soviet Union

Narnia

Mars

Trafalmadore
8 Billy travels through time because
he has become "unstuck in time"

he has a special machine

he is an alien

he has a chip in his brain
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
anti-tank gunner

chaplain's assistant

paratrooper

scout
11 Billy first gets shipped to Europe in the middle of
the Battle of Stalingrad

the Battle of the Bulge

the Normandy invasion

the Battle of Britain
12 Wandering behind enemy lines, Billy falls in with
three scouts called the "Three Musketeers"

two scouts and an anti-tank gunner

Bernard O'Hare and Kurt Vonnegut

none of the above
13 Roland Weary could best be described as
a scrappy fighter who knows how to survive behind enemy lines

a true and faithful friend

fat, stupid, and mean

a pacifist
14 Roland imagines that he is
Napoleon

a ninja warrior called Saboro

good friends with the scouts; they call themselves the "Three Musketeers"

enemies with Billy, called "devil-child"
15 Billy and Roland are captured by
German irregulars

SS troops

an all-female combat unit

Russians
16 Roland dies of
cancer

electrocution

a bullet wound

gangrene in his feet
17 On the train, none of the men wants to sleep next to Billy because
he's black

he talks and kicks in his sleep

he smells

all of the above
18 Trafalmadorians experience time
all at once, with all things happening simultaneously

backwards, then forwards

forwards, then backwards

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

angry and violent

happy and sad

resentful and defiant
20 Billy's father dies
in a hunting accident

at Normandy

at Auschwitz

from suicide
21 Billy eventually becomes a
Catholic priest

optometrist

gynecologist

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

suspended animation

an underwater habitat

a dog kennel
23 In his habitat, Billy wears
nothing

his old military uniform

a business suit

a clown suit
24 Billy marries
Kurt Vonnegut's sister, Clarice

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

Montana Wildhack, an alien princess

Svetlana, a Russian girl
25 Paul Lazarro is
the pseudonym of Billy's alien kidnapper

a high school teacher from Ilium

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

an Italian doctor who help Billy to escape

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.

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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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