Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 1–2 Quiz
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. Who is the narrator of Chapter 1?
a. Paul Lazzaro
b. Billy Pilgrim
c. Kurt Vonnegut
d. Roland Weary
2. What is the point of view of Chapter 1?
a. first person point of view
b. third person limited point of view
c. third person objective point of view
d. third person omniscient point of view
3. What is the point of view of Chapter 2?
a. first person point of view
b. third person limited point of view
c. third person objective point of view
d. third person omniscient point of view
4. What will be the climax of the novel?
a. the attack on Pearl Harbor
b. the bombing of Dresden
c. D-Day
d. V-Day
5. What does the color orange symbolize in the timeline that the narrator draws in Chapter 1?
a. beauty and nostalgia
c. desire and love
b. chaos and destruction
d. peacefulness and tranquility
6. Why is The Children’s Crusade, the alternative title of the novel, appropriate or fitting?
a. Children need to be obedient and respectful towards authority figures and their elders.
b. Children spend too much time in their childhood and need to enter the adult world quickly.
c. The men who fought in war were too young and naïve to die.
d. The men who fought in war left behind their children to fight a noble cause.
7. Why doesn’t the narrator write works with villains? What did he learn in World War 2?
a. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because everyone is a villain in life.
b. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because everyone is a villain in war.
c. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because he is the only villain he knows.
d. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because there are no villains in war.
8. How is the narrator indirectly characterized by the action of phone calling people drunk late at night?
a. The narrator is indirectly characterized as being a party animal who needs to mature.
b. The narrator is indirectly characterized as having a drinking problem that’s ruining his life.
c. The narrator is indirectly characterized as moderate in enjoying his activities responsibly.
d. The narrator is indirectly characterized as still being restless and upset about the war.
9. What Christmas carol is the epigraph that appears before Chapter 1 (“The cattle are lowing, / The
Baby awakes. / But the little lord Jesus / No crying He makes”) from?
a. “Away in a Manger”
c. “O Holy Night”
b. “The First Noel”
d. “Silent Night”
10. Billy travels to all of the following events in his life in Chapter 2 except which?
a. 1958 and attends a science fair for his son’s seventh grade project
b. 1961 and cheats on his wife by hooking up with another woman
c. 1965 and visits his mother in a nursing home
d. 1957 and gives a speech to the Lions Club where he’s elected president
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 3–4 Quiz
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. What is ironic about Billy saying “Excuse me” and “I beg your pardon” while bumping into others?
a. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is an impolite, rude person.
b. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is asking for forgiveness, but he’s not sorry.
c. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is behaving politely in the middle of war.
d. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is intentionally trying to hurt Ronald Weary.
2. What does Billy uncontrollably do that requires him to take a nap every day? Why?
a. Billy cries uncontrollably because he is lonely without a significant other for support.
b. Billy cries uncontrollably because he is sensitive and traumatized by Weary’s words.
c. Billy cries uncontrollably because he likely has PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
d. Billy cries uncontrollably because he misses war and the good times he spent there.
3. Why do the men nestle like spoons? What does Vonnegut imply through the motif of this simile?
a. People are slaves.
c. People crave companionship.
b. People cave and are easily broken.
d. People love to rave.
4. What theme does Vonnegut imply with Billy watching a World War 2 movie in reverse?
a. Death is but a door; time is but a window.
c. War should be rewound and never occur.
b. Time is on my side. Yes, it is.
d. War should be rewound and relived again.
5. Which of the following themes is similar to the Tralfamadorians’ advice that “we are where we
have to be just now”?
a. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try.
b. The time is always right to do what is right.
c. Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.
d. We are only guaranteed the present, so it is best to live in the moment.
6. Why does Ronald Weary use Billy Pilgrim as his scapegoat?
a. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because he can’t blame his own inexperience and insecurity.
b. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because he thinks logically and rationally, not emotionally.
c. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because it is Billy’s fault that the two are captured.
d. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because it is Billy’s shoes that give him gangrene.
7. What could the visual imagery of blue and ivory that Billy feels and sees suggest or symbolize?
a. cleanliness or purity
c. depth or stability
b. death or otherworldliness
d. tranquility or peacefulness
8. What do orange and black stripes symbolize through their juxtaposition in Ch. 3 and 4, respectively?
a. death and life
c. heaven and hell
b. forgiveness and revenge
d. trick and treat
9. What is ironic about the hobo’s last words “You think this is bad? This ain’t bad”?
a. This made him glad.
c. This was bad.
b. This made him mad.
d. This was rad.
10. What is the subtext or theme of the Tralfamadorians’ advice to Billy that “there is no why”?
a. Fate doesn’t exist.
c. Free will doesn’t exist.
b. Fate is for losers.
d. Free will gives us the truth.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 5 Quiz
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. How is Slaughterhouse Five like a Tralfamadorian novel?
a. It builds suspense and is suspenseful.
b. It doesn’t have causes and effects.
c. It is non-chronological or nonlinear.
d. Its plot is meant to be read in sequence.
2. How are the Englishmen indirectly characterized?
a. They’re dignified and respected.
b. They’re disgusted and loathed.
c. They’re effeminate and weak.
d. They’re greedy and selfish.
3. All of the following are situational ironies about the Englishmen except which? Which isn’t true?
a. The Englishmen are performing a production of the play Cinderella for the troops.
b. The Englishmen have a well-stocked wine cellar to drown out their sorrows from war.
c. The Englishmen have been well stocked and well fed throughout war.
d. The Englishmen provide an opulent spread of food and hygiene products to the Americans.
4. What does Billy learn from an Englishman about why he was given his coat from the Germans?
a. They wanted to help him.
c. They wanted to kill him.
b. They wanted to humiliate him.
d. They wanted to praise him.
5. What genre of literature comforts Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater? Why?
a. historical fiction because it allows them to see realistic events from a new perspective
b. nonfiction because it enables them to stay connected in real world current events and politics
c. romantic fiction because it allows them to satisfy emotional needs they can’t get during war
d. science fiction because it is escapist entertainment (i.e. it allows them to escape their lives)
6. What is the subtext of Eliot Rosewater saying what is attractive about war?
a. People profit from war.
b. War is hell.
c. War is peace.
d. We make war that we may live in peace.
7. Which of the following idioms would the Tralfamadorians agree with and encourage to Earthlings?
a. Even broken clock is right twice a day.
c. Only time will tell.
b. Hit the big time.
d. Stop and smell the roses.
8. How is Valencia Merble indirectly characterized?
a. She is an entitled and spoiled but patriotic and selfless wife.
b. She is an entitled, spoiled, and bitter wife.
c. She is an overweight and ugly but loving and supportive wife.
d. She is an overweight, ugly, selfish, and all-consuming wife.
9. What is ironic about how Billy behaves at the end of Chapter 5?
a. Although Billy has found peace internally, he is still at war in World War 2 externally.
b. Although Billy has found peace internally, his views will create conflict externally.
c. Although Billy has returned from war and is safe, he is at peace externally with others, too.
d. Although Billy has returned from war and is safe, he is still mentally unsound and upset.
10. What is ironic about Billy’s profession and how he is viewed?
a. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, he improves their mental vision, too.
b. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, his vision of the world is criticized.
c. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, his vision of the world is wrong.
d. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, they work to physically harm his vision.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 6–8 Quiz
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. All of the following could be used to support that Paul Lazzaro is sick and twisted except which?
a. Paul Lazzaro believes that it is best to forgive and forget.
b. Paul Lazzaro plans to hire assassins to kill people who have wronged him years later.
c. Paul Lazzaro tortured and slowly killed a dog.
d. Paul Lazzaro wants to kill by shooting someone in his private area and then his guts.
2. All of the following explain why Paul Lazzaro is ironic given the conflict and setting except which?
a. Paul Lazzaro is a soldier who is supposed to be honorable, but he acts dishonorably.
b. Paul Lazzaro is all bark but no bite, meaning he talks violence but isn’t a violent person.
c. Paul Lazzaro is surrounded by unnecessary deaths, but he wants more unnecessary deaths.
d. Paul Lazzaro is unnecessarily violent when he shouldn’t be because he’s already at war.
3. How does Billy Pilgrim view his death? Why?
a. Billy Pilgrim doesn’t fear death because he knows that he will never die.
b. Billy Pilgrim doesn’t fear death because he knows that it can’t be changed.
c. Billy Pilgrim doesn’t want to die.
d. Billy Pilgrim fears death because it is unknown.
4. What does the line that the Englishmen draw in the ground symbolize? Why?
a. connection
b. decoration
c. division
d. parallelism
5. The syrup in the factory where Billy works is ironic for all of the following reasons except which?
a. The syrup is consumed by Derby who will later be shot and killed.
b. The syrup is intended for pregnant women but is consumed by ailing men.
c. The syrup that is used to nourish the future is about to be destroyed in the bombing.
d. The syrup that is used to provide nutrients tastes terrible and is undesirable.
6. Why is the surgeon offended by Billy’s outfit?
a. He thinks Billy is mocking Cinderella.
b. He thinks Billy is mocking Germany.
c. He thinks Billy is mocking war.
d. He thinks Billy is mocking women.
7. Why does Vonnegut allude to Oz when the American prisoners of war arrive at Dresden?
a. to describe its beauty and splendor
c. to describe its greenness and novelty
b. to describe its fantasy and mystery
d. to describe its
8. How is Howard W. Campbell, Jr. ironic?
a. He is an American loyalist.
b. He is an American Nazi.
c. He is a German Nazi.
d. He is a German traitor
9. Who in Chapter 8 is a foil to Howard W. Campbell, Jr. for contrasting patriotic values?
a. Edgar Derby
c. Paul Lazzaro
b. Werner Gluck
d. Billy Pilgrim
10. What do American fighter planes do following the Dresden bombing, and how is it ironic?
a. The American fighter planes drop care packages and supplies after the bombing.
b. The American fighter planes have their pilots wave peace signs as they fly away.
c. The American fighter planes regret the bombs they dropped right after dropping them.
d. The American fighter planes shoot those who miraculously survived the bombing.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 9–10 Quiz
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. What is ironic and tragic about Valencia’s death?
a. She dies because she deserves it for being such a despicable, evil character.
b. She dies because she neglects to take care of her health after years of neglect.
c. She dies because see rushes to see Billy after his accident and doesn’t take care of herself.
d. She dies because she is aware that Billy has cheated on her with other women.
2. Which character best supports the assertion that Slaughterhouse Five isn’t antimilitary?
a. Edgar Derby
c. Robert Pilgrim
b. Paul Lazzaro
d. Eliot Rosewater
3. Why is Betram Copeland Rumfoord’s initial opinion of Billy Pilgrim ironic?
a. Pilgrim was a World War 2 hero.
c. Pilgrim was in the Dresden bombing.
b. Pilgrim was an American traitor.
d. Pilgrim was the liar Rumfoord believes.
4. What is ironic that Billy finally has on him after the bombing that he didn’t have earlier in the war?
a. a Bible
b. a crucifix
c. a gun
d. a poison capsule
5. Who is the person who inspired Billy to frame “God grant me the serenity […]” on his office wall?
a. Valencia Merble
b. Bertrand Copeland Rumfoord
c. Kilgore Trout
d. Montana Wildhack
6. What is ironic about Bertram Copeland Rumfoord?
a.
He has never served in a war.
b.
He has never served in the military.
c.
d.
He’s 70 but doesn’t care about the past.
He’s 70 but is married to a 23-year-old.
7. What is ironic and tragic about Edgar Derby’s execution?
a.
He is executed for such a heinous crime.
c. He is killed suddenly without any warning.
b.
He is executed for such a petty crime.
d. He is young and has a full life ahead of him.
8. All of the major events in 1968 are provided at the beginning of Chapter 10 to describe the
sociocultural context of when Vonnegut wrote the novel except which?
a. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
b. Military science records deaths in the Vietnam War.
c. Robert Kennedy’s is assassinated.
d. Two American black athletes staged a silent demonstration against racism at the Olympics.
9. What is ironic about Billy crying when he sees the condition that the horses pulling the wagon are in?
a. Billy has seen many tragedies and has cried at every one because they all are preventable.
b. Billy has seen many tragedies towards humans but cries at a tragedy inflicted on animals.
c. Billy hasn’t seen many tragedies, but he cries at a tragedy inflicted on animals.
d. Billy hasn’t seen many tragedies, but he cries at a tragedy that he inflicted on animals.
10. What did Vonnegut write earlier in Chapter 1 about why the work would end with “Poo-tee-weet?”?
a. “Poo-tee-weet?” is a calling to speak out and vocalize against life’s atrocities (i.e. war).
b. “Poo-tee-weet?” is a sign that life and nature will not be able to continue and survive.
c. “Poo-tee-weet?” is hope because hope is the thing with feathers that lifts during despair.
d. “Poo-tee-weet?” is nonsense because what sense can be made of a massacre and war.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 1–2 Quiz – KEY
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. Who is the narrator of Chapter 1?
a. Paul Lazzaro
b. Billy Pilgrim
c. Kurt Vonnegut
d. Roland Weary
2. What is the point of view of Chapter 1?
a. first person point of view
b. third person limited point of view
c. third person objective point of view
d. third person omniscient point of view
3. What is the point of view of Chapter 2?
a. first person point of view
b. third person limited point of view
c. third person objective point of view
d. third person omniscient point of view
4. What will be the climax of the novel?
a. the attack on Pearl Harbor
b. the bombing of Dresden
c. D-Day
d. V-Day
5. What does the color orange symbolize in the timeline that the narrator draws in Chapter 1?
a. beauty and nostalgia
c. desire and love
b. chaos and destruction
d. peacefulness and tranquility
6. Why is The Children’s Crusade, the alternative title of the novel, appropriate or fitting?
a. Children need to be obedient and respectful towards authority figures and their elders.
b. Children spend too much time in their childhood and need to enter the adult world quickly.
c. The men who fought in war were too young and naïve to die.
d. The men who fought in war left behind their children to fight a noble cause.
7. Why doesn’t the narrator write works with villains? What did he learn in World War 2?
a. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because everyone is a villain in life.
b. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because everyone is a villain in war.
c. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because he is the only villain he knows.
d. The narrator doesn’t write works with villains because there are no villains in war.
8. How is the narrator indirectly characterized by the action of phone calling people drunk late at night?
a. The narrator is indirectly characterized as being a party animal who needs to mature.
b. The narrator is indirectly characterized as having a drinking problem that’s ruining his life.
c. The narrator is indirectly characterized as moderate in enjoying his activities responsibly.
d. The narrator is indirectly characterized as still being restless and upset about the war.
9. What Christmas carol is the epigraph that appears before Chapter 1 (“The cattle are lowing, / The
Baby awakes. / But the little lord Jesus / No crying He makes”) from?
a. “Away in a Manger”
c. “O Holy Night”
b. “The First Noel”
d. “Silent Night”
10. Billy travels to all of the following events in his life in Chapter 2 except which?
a. 1958 and attends a science fair for his son’s seventh grade project
b. 1961 and cheats on his wife by hooking up with another woman
c. 1965 and visits his mother in a nursing home
d. 1957 and gives a speech to the Lions Club where he’s elected president
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 3–4 Quiz – KEY
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. What is ironic about Billy saying “Excuse me” and “I beg your pardon” while bumping into others?
a. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is an impolite, rude person.
b. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is asking for forgiveness, but he’s not sorry.
c. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is behaving politely in the middle of war.
d. Billy saying “Excuse me” is ironic because he is intentionally trying to hurt Ronald Weary.
2. What does Billy uncontrollably do that requires him to take a nap every day? Why?
a. Billy cries uncontrollably because he is lonely without a significant other for support.
b. Billy cries uncontrollably because he is sensitive and traumatized by Weary’s words.
c. Billy cries uncontrollably because he likely has PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder).
d. Billy cries uncontrollably because he misses war and the good times he spent there.
3. Why do the men nestle like spoons? What does Vonnegut imply through the motif of this simile?
a. People are slaves.
c. People crave companionship.
b. People cave and are easily broken.
d. People love to rave.
4. What theme does Vonnegut imply with Billy watching a World War 2 movie in reverse?
a. Death is but a door; time is but a window.
c. War should be rewound and never occur.
b. Time is on my side. Yes, it is.
d. War should be rewound and relived again.
5. Which of the following themes is similar to the Tralfamadorians’ advice that “we are where we
have to be just now”?
a. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try.
b. The time is always right to do what is right.
c. Time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted.
d. We are only guaranteed the present, so it is best to live in the moment.
6. Why does Ronald Weary use Billy Pilgrim as his scapegoat?
a. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because he can’t blame his own inexperience and insecurity.
b. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because he thinks logically and rationally, not emotionally.
c. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because it is Billy’s fault that the two are captured.
d. Weary uses Pilgrim as his scapegoat because it is Billy’s shoes that give him gangrene.
7. What could the visual imagery of blue and ivory that Billy feels and sees suggest or symbolize?
a. cleanliness or purity
c. depth or stability
b. death or otherworldliness
d. tranquility or peacefulness
8. What do orange and black stripes symbolize through their juxtaposition in Ch. 3 and 4, respectively?
a. death and life
c. heaven and hell
b. forgiveness and revenge
d. trick and treat
9. What is ironic about the hobo’s last words “You think this is bad? This ain’t bad”?
a. This made him glad.
c. This was bad.
b. This made him mad.
d. This was rad.
10. What is the subtext or theme of the Tralfamadorians’ advice to Billy that “there is no why”?
a. Fate doesn’t exist.
c. Free will doesn’t exist.
b. Fate is for losers.
d. Free will gives us the truth.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 5 Quiz – KEY
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. How is Slaughterhouse Five like a Tralfamadorian novel?
a. It builds suspense and is suspenseful.
b. It doesn’t have causes and effects.
c. It is non-chronological or nonlinear.
d. Its plot is meant to be read in sequence.
2. How are the Englishmen indirectly characterized?
a. They’re dignified and respected.
b. They’re disgusted and loathed.
c. They’re effeminate and weak.
d. They’re greedy and selfish.
3. All of the following are situational ironies about the Englishmen except which? Which isn’t true?
a. The Englishmen are performing a production of the play Cinderella for the troops.
b. The Englishmen have a well-stocked wine cellar to drown out their sorrows from war.
c. The Englishmen have been well stocked and well fed throughout war.
d. The Englishmen provide an opulent spread of food and hygiene products to the Americans.
4. What does Billy learn from an Englishman about why he was given his coat from the Germans?
a. They wanted to help him.
c. They wanted to kill him.
b. They wanted to humiliate him.
d. They wanted to praise him.
5. What genre of literature comforts Billy Pilgrim and Eliot Rosewater? Why?
a. historical fiction because it allows them to see realistic events from a new perspective
b. nonfiction because it enables them to stay connected in real world current events and politics
c. romantic fiction because it allows them to satisfy emotional needs they can’t get during war
d. science fiction because it is escapist entertainment (i.e. it allows them to escape their lives)
6. What is the subtext of Eliot Rosewater saying what is attractive about war?
a. People profit from war.
b. War is hell.
c. War is peace.
d. We make war that we may live in peace.
7. Which of the following idioms would the Tralfamadorians agree with and encourage to Earthlings?
a. Even broken clock is right twice a day.
c. Only time will tell.
b. Hit the big time.
d. Stop and smell the roses.
8. How is Valencia Merble indirectly characterized?
a. She is an entitled and spoiled but patriotic and selfless wife.
b. She is an entitled, spoiled, and bitter wife.
c. She is an overweight and ugly but loving and supportive wife.
d. She is an overweight, ugly, selfish, and all-consuming wife.
9. What is ironic about how Billy behaves at the end of Chapter 5?
a. Although Billy has found peace internally, he is still at war in World War 2 externally.
b. Although Billy has found peace internally, his views will create conflict externally.
c. Although Billy has returned from war and is safe, he is at peace externally with others, too.
d. Although Billy has returned from war and is safe, he is still mentally unsound and upset.
10. What is ironic about Billy’s profession and how he is viewed?
a. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, he improves their mental vision, too.
b. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, his vision of the world is criticized.
c. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, his vision of the world is wrong.
d. Although Billy helps others improve their vision, they work to physically harm his vision.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 6–8 Quiz – KEY
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. All of the following could be used to support that Paul Lazzaro is sick and twisted except which?
a. Paul Lazzaro believes that it is best to forgive and forget.
b. Paul Lazzaro plans to hire assassins to kill people who have wronged him years later.
c. Paul Lazzaro tortured and slowly killed a dog.
d. Paul Lazzaro wants to kill by shooting someone in his private area and then his guts.
2. All of the following explain why Paul Lazzaro is ironic given the conflict and setting except which?
a. Paul Lazzaro is a soldier who is supposed to be honorable, but he acts dishonorably.
b. Paul Lazzaro is all bark but no bite, meaning he talks violence but isn’t a violent person.
c. Paul Lazzaro is surrounded by unnecessary deaths, but he wants more unnecessary deaths.
d. Paul Lazzaro is unnecessarily violent when he shouldn’t be because he’s already at war.
3. How does Billy Pilgrim view his death? Why?
a. Billy Pilgrim doesn’t fear death because he knows that he will never die.
b. Billy Pilgrim doesn’t fear death because he knows that it can’t be changed.
c. Billy Pilgrim doesn’t want to die.
d. Billy Pilgrim fears death because it is unknown.
4. What does the line that the Englishmen draw in the ground symbolize? Why?
a. connection
b. decoration
c. division
d. parallelism
5. The syrup in the factory where Billy works is ironic for all of the following reasons except which?
a. The syrup is consumed by Derby who will later be shot and killed.
b. The syrup is intended for pregnant women but is consumed by ailing men.
c. The syrup that is used to nourish the future is about to be destroyed in the bombing.
d. The syrup that is used to provide nutrients tastes terrible and is undesirable.
6. Why is the surgeon offended by Billy’s outfit?
a. He thinks Billy is mocking Cinderella.
b. He thinks Billy is mocking Germany.
c. He thinks Billy is mocking war.
d. He thinks Billy is mocking women.
7. Why does Vonnegut allude to Oz when the American prisoners of war arrive at Dresden?
a. to describe its beauty and splendor
c. to describe its greenness and novelty
b. to describe its fantasy and mystery
d. to describe its
8. How is Howard W. Campbell, Jr. ironic?
a. He is an American loyalist.
b. He is an American Nazi.
c. He is a German Nazi.
d. He is a German traitor
9. Who in Chapter 8 is a foil to Howard W. Campbell, Jr. for contrasting patriotic values?
a. Edgar Derby
c. Paul Lazzaro
b. Werner Gluck
d. Billy Pilgrim
10. What do American fighter planes do following the Dresden bombing, and how is it ironic?
a. The American fighter planes drop care packages and supplies after the bombing.
b. The American fighter planes have their pilots wave peace signs as they fly away.
c. The American fighter planes regret the bombs they dropped right after dropping them.
d. The American fighter planes shoot those who miraculously survived the bombing.
Name: _______________________ Period: ______ Date: _______________ Score: ______/10
Slaughterhouse Five Ch. 9–10 Quiz – KEY
Directions: Choose the best answer and circle it.
1. What is ironic and tragic about Valencia’s death?
a. She dies because she deserves it for being such a despicable, evil character.
b. She dies because she neglects to take care of her health after years of neglect.
c. She dies because see rushes to see Billy after his accident and doesn’t take care of herself.
d. She dies because she is aware that Billy has cheated on her with other women.
2. Which character best supports the assertion that Slaughterhouse Five isn’t antimilitary?
a. Edgar Derby
c. Robert Pilgrim
b. Paul Lazzaro
d. Eliot Rosewater
3. Why is Betram Copeland Rumfoord’s initial opinion of Billy Pilgrim ironic?
a. Pilgrim was a World War 2 hero.
c. Pilgrim was in the Dresden bombing.
b. Pilgrim was an American traitor.
d. Pilgrim was the liar Rumfoord believes.
4. What is ironic that Billy finally has on him after the bombing that he didn’t have earlier in the war?
a. a Bible
b. a crucifix
c. a gun
d. a poison capsule
5. Who is the person who inspired Billy to frame “God grant me the serenity […]” on his office wall?
a. Valencia Merble
b. Bertrand Copeland Rumfoord
c. Kilgore Trout
d. Montana Wildhack
6. What is ironic about Bertram Copeland Rumfoord?
a.
He has never served in a war.
b.
He has never served in the military.
c.
d.
He’s 70 but doesn’t care about the past.
He’s 70 but is married to a 23-year-old.
7. What is ironic and tragic about Edgar Derby’s execution?
a.
He is executed for such a heinous crime.
c. He is killed suddenly without any warning.
b.
He is executed for such a petty crime.
d. He is young and has a full life ahead of him.
8. All of the major events in 1968 are provided at the beginning of Chapter 10 to describe the
sociocultural context of when Vonnegut wrote the novel except which?
a. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
b. Military science records deaths in the Vietnam War.
c. Robert Kennedy’s is assassinated.
d. Two American black athletes staged a silent demonstration against racism at the Olympics.
9. What is ironic about Billy crying when he sees the condition that the horses pulling the wagon are in?
a. Billy has seen many tragedies and has cried at every one because they all are preventable.
b. Billy has seen many tragedies towards humans but cries at a tragedy inflicted on animals.
c. Billy hasn’t seen many tragedies, but he cries at a tragedy inflicted on animals.
d. Billy hasn’t seen many tragedies, but he cries at a tragedy that he inflicted on animals.
10. What did Vonnegut write earlier in Chapter 1 about why the work would end with “Poo-tee-weet?”?
a. “Poo-tee-weet?” is a calling to speak out and vocalize against life’s atrocities (i.e. war).
b. “Poo-tee-weet?” is a sign that life and nature will not be able to continue and survive.
c. “Poo-tee-weet?” is hope because hope is the thing with feathers that lifts during despair.
d. “Poo-tee-weet?” is nonsense because what sense can be made of a massacre and war.