Slaughterhouse Five Quizzes

Slaughterhouse Five Quiz 1

By Eddie Borey · Last reviewed September 24, 2000

1 Slaughterhouse Five focuses on the bombing of

Hiroshima

Berlin

London

Dresden
2 Vonnegut tracks down Bernard O'Hare to

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

kill him

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

look up Billy Pilgrim
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 Sodom and Gomorrah and the fate of Lot's wife

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

Athens, Georgia

Gomorrah, Maine

Ilium, New York

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

Trafalmadore

Narnia

Mars

the Soviet Union
8 Billy travels through time because

he has a chip in his brain

he has a special machine

he is an alien

he has become "unstuck in time"
9 Billy's physicality could best be described as

tall but strong

short and fat

tall and weak

tall and muscular
10 Billy was trained to be a/an

chaplain's assistant

anti-tank gunner

scout

paratrooper
11 Billy first gets shipped to Europe in the middle of

the Battle of the Bulge

the Battle of Stalingrad

the Normandy invasion

the Battle of Britain
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 scrappy fighter who knows how to survive behind enemy lines

a true and faithful friend

fat, stupid, and mean
14 Roland imagines that he is

enemies with Billy, called "devil-child"

Napoleon

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

a ninja warrior called Saboro
15 Billy and Roland are captured by

German irregulars

SS troops

Russians

an all-female combat unit
16 Roland dies of

gangrene in his feet

electrocution

a bullet wound

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

backwards

forwards, then backwards

backwards, then forwards

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

resentful and defiant

passive and accepting

angry and violent

happy and sad
20 Billy's father dies

at Auschwitz

in a hunting accident

from suicide

at Normandy
21 Billy eventually becomes a

Catholic priest

gynecologist

ambassador to China

optometrist
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 clown suit

his old military uniform

a business suit

nothing
24 Billy marries

Kurt Vonnegut's sister, Clarice

Svetlana, a Russian girl

Montana Wildhack, an alien princess

Valencia, the daughter of his optometry school's owner and founder
25 Paul Lazarro is

the pseudonym of Billy's alien kidnapper

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

an Italian doctor who help Billy to escape

a high school teacher from Ilium

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