Slaughterhouse-Five

Who is Billy Pilgrim?

Fill in the blank: I really did go back to Dresden with ___________ (God love it) in 1967.

• a bank loan

• a loan from a friend

• Guggenheim money

• a grant from the Army

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CCSS.RL.8.3

Who says, 'I say, "Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?"

• Harrison Starr

• Mary O'Hare

• Billy Pilgrim

• Roland Weary

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

To whom does Vonnegut dedicate his book?

• soldiers who fought in world wars

• optometrists

• Roland Weary

• Mary O'Hare

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CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which two people does Mary O'Hare mention in this statement? 'You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the movies by ________ and _______ or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we'll have a lot more of them. And they'll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.'

• Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

• soldiers and generals

• Frank Sinatra and John Wayne

• Harry Connick and Gregory Peck

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

True or False: Billy Pilgrim becomes rich.

• True

• False

• the book does not say

• none of the above

How does Billy Pilgrim's wife die?

• a hunting accident

• carbon-monoxide poisoning

• in the war

• she is kidnapped by aliens

Tralfamadorians can see in

• one dimension

• two dimensions

• three dimensions

• four dimensions

This is the year Billy first comes unstuck in time.

• 1922

• 1933

• 1944

• 1955

This is on the wall where Billy Pilgrim grows up.

• Roland Weary's picture

• a pair of glasses

• a crucifix

• a picture of Adam and Eve