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Slaughterhouse Five - Part III Quiz

My third and last quiz about about Kurt Vonnegut's great novel "Slaughterhouse Five". This quiz focuses on the last chapters of the book and all questions are multiple choice.

A multiple-choice quiz by oofahlandian. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
oofahlandian

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
251,690

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
756

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 15

1. The Tralfamadorians see all time at once. According to one of the aliens, how does the universe end? Hint

An atmospheric generator

A war that began on Tralfamadore

A fuel test by a Tralfamadorian

A Tralfamadorian terrorist

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Question 2 of 15

2. Tralfamadorians have fought in some terrible wars. Typical of their four-dimensional world view, however, how do they deal with them? Hint

They spin them backwards until the war is undone

They try to end them before they start

They ignore them

They relive them to learn from them

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Question 3 of 15

3. When Valencia said she would lose weight for Billy, the latter told her not to worry. "I like you just the way you are," Billy said. What motivated him to say this? Hint

Her family was rich

He had seen the future

He loved her deeply

She took care of him after the war

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Question 4 of 15

4. According to Howard W. Campbell, what country produced "the most self-pitying, least fraternal, and dirtiest of all prisoners of war"? Hint

Russians

Americans

Germans

British

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Question 5 of 15

5. What was the profession of the Earth woman who was brought to Billy at the Tralfamadorian zoo as a mate? Hint

Teacher

Housewife

Movie star

Nurse

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Question 6 of 15

6. Where does Billy die after addressing a "large crowd on the subject of flying saucers?" Hint

Tralfamadore

Salt Lake City

Philadelphia

Chicago

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Question 7 of 15

7. Why did the Englishman say that the Americans needn't worry about being moved to Dresden? Hint

It was an open city

All of these

It contained no war industries

It was unoccupied by German troops

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Question 8 of 15

8. The narrator has a bit part as the Americans arrive in Dresden. What word did he use to describe the city as he stepped out of the rail car? Hint

Wow

Paradise

Utopia

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Question 9 of 15

9. Entering the Dresden slaughterhouse, the Americans were taken to building number five. "It was a one-story cement-block cube". What was it built to house? Hint

Russians

Milk Cows

Jews

Pigs

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Question 10 of 15

10. When Billy visited Kilgore Trout in 1964, what was Trout's occupation (i.e. how did he earn his living)? Hint

An author

He worked in a slaughter house outside of Ilium

He was broke and unemployed

A circulation man for the Ilium Gazette

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Question 11 of 15

11. What did Valencia die of? Hint

A plane crash

A heart attack

Shot in Philadelphia at the same time as Billy

Carbon monoxide poisoning

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Question 12 of 15

12. After the war, which allied power occupied Dresden? Hint

The French

The Russians

The Americans

The British

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Question 13 of 15

13. During the war, Billy hadn't cried about anything. However, during his trip back to Dresden after being freed from imprisonment, what caused him to "burst into tears"? Hint

The "moonscape"

The condition of his horses

A dead child in the gutter

The sight of Jews recently freed from Auschwitz

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Question 14 of 15

14. According to the narrator, which Earthling is most engaging to the Tralfamadorians? Hint

Charles Darwin

Billy Pilgrim

Jesus Christ

Pontius Pilot

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Question 15 of 15

15. The climax of the story is a firing squad. Who was killed for plundering a teapot from the ruins of Dresden? Hint

Edgar Derby

Howard W. Campbell

The narrator

Paul Lazzaro

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. The Tralfamadorians see all time at once. According to one of the aliens, how does the universe end?

Answer: A fuel test by a Tralfamadorian

The Tralfamadorians destroy the universe (including the Earth) by testing a new fuel for their flying saucers. Billy is shocked. "If you know this, isn't there some way you can prevent it? Can't you keep the pilot from pressing the button?" The response is oh-so-typical of an alien that sees in four dimensions: "He has ALWAYS pressed it, and he always WILL. We ALWAYS let him and we always WILL let him.

The moment is STRUCTURED that way."

2. Tralfamadorians have fought in some terrible wars. Typical of their four-dimensional world view, however, how do they deal with them?

Answer: They ignore them

They ignore the wars and focus on good times, the zoo guide tells Billy. "That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones." His words of course are quite different from what they mean to us. The Tralfamadorians don't really live in any one time.

3. When Valencia said she would lose weight for Billy, the latter told her not to worry. "I like you just the way you are," Billy said. What motivated him to say this?

Answer: He had seen the future

To quote from the book: "He had already seen a lot of their marriage, thanks to time-travel, knew that it was going to be at least bearable all the way."

4. According to Howard W. Campbell, what country produced "the most self-pitying, least fraternal, and dirtiest of all prisoners of war"?

Answer: Americans

The German prison guard read some of Campbell's writings to the British officers as they wondered over the "scruffy lot" of Americans. Campbell himself had been a captured American who later rose to a high rank in the German propaganda machine. "He would later hang himself while awaiting trial as a war criminal."

5. What was the profession of the Earth woman who was brought to Billy at the Tralfamadorian zoo as a mate?

Answer: Movie star

Montana Wildhack was her name, and she was brought to him under heavy sedation. "All attendance records for the zoo were broken" that day. In time she "came to love and trust Billy Pilgrim." By the end, we learn they even had a child together.

6. Where does Billy die after addressing a "large crowd on the subject of flying saucers?"

Answer: Chicago

The year is 1976, and Paul Lazzaro finally fulfils his promise to Roland Weary. Billy doesn't mind, having predicted his death to the audience that day. Moments after his death, he's alive again and talking to Lazzaro in 1945.

7. Why did the Englishman say that the Americans needn't worry about being moved to Dresden?

Answer: All of these

The Englishman told the Americans this in the shed that served as their theatre the night before.

8. The narrator has a bit part as the Americans arrive in Dresden. What word did he use to describe the city as he stepped out of the rail car?

Answer: Oz

To Billy, "it looked like a Sunday school picture of Heaven." While most other big cities in Germany had been bombed "ferociously", Dresden "had not suffered so much as a cracked windowpane."

9. Entering the Dresden slaughterhouse, the Americans were taken to building number five. "It was a one-story cement-block cube". What was it built to house?

Answer: Pigs

Their new address, a guard told them as they walked in, was "Schlachthof-funf". Slaughterhouse Five.

10. When Billy visited Kilgore Trout in 1964, what was Trout's occupation (i.e. how did he earn his living)?

Answer: A circulation man for the Ilium Gazette

He managed newspaper delivery boys. As the narrator writes: he "bullies and flatters and cheats little kids." He was indeed an author, but it brought him little money and even less recognition.

11. What did Valencia die of?

Answer: Carbon monoxide poisoning

She left the scene of an accident on the way to visit Billy at the hospital. Her exhaust system lay in the road where the accident occurred. By the time she arrived at the hospital she was sick with carbon monoxide poisoning. An hour later, she died. (So it goes.)

12. After the war, which allied power occupied Dresden?

Answer: The Russians

The bombing of Dresden was largely kept secret among the American people. "It was no secret from the Germans, of course, or from the Russians, who occupied Dresden after the war, who are in Dresden still."

13. During the war, Billy hadn't cried about anything. However, during his trip back to Dresden after being freed from imprisonment, what caused him to "burst into tears"?

Answer: The condition of his horses

The horses' mouths were bleeding, gashed by the bits...the horses' hooves were broken, so that every step meant agony...the horses were insane with thirst." He had ridden in the coffin-shaped wagon with four other Americans without realizing what the condition of the horses was.

14. According to the narrator, which Earthling is most engaging to the Tralfamadorians?

Answer: Charles Darwin

Darwin "taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes."

15. The climax of the story is a firing squad. Who was killed for plundering a teapot from the ruins of Dresden?

Answer: Edgar Derby

This was foreshadowed from almost the first page of the book. The narrator doesn't make much of it when it actually happens. "So it goes."

Source: Author oofahlandian

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