Who is the main character in Slaughterhouse Five?
A) John Doe
B) Billy Pilgrim
C) Roland Weary
D) Kurt Vonnegut
The novel focuses on the bombing of...
A) Hiroshima
B) Berlin
C) Dresden
D) China
Where is Billy's hometown?
A) Boston, Massachusetts
B) Illium, New York
C) New York, New York
D) Los Angeles, California
Billy believes he travels through time because he is...
A) Unstuck in time
B) An alien
C) A magician
D) He has a brain disorder
Watching the war movie in reverse is ironic because...
A) Once played backwards, the main message of the movie is about peace instead of hatred and war
B) It showed everyone turning into babies, highlighting the insignificance of our humanity in relation to the larger world
C) This war movie did not glorify the actions, as other war movies often do; it simply undermined them
D) All of the above
Billy believes he has been abducted by aliens from (hint look at next question):
A) Mars
B) Narnia
C) The Moon
D) Tralfamadore
The Tralfamadorians experience time...
A) Linearly
B) Backwards, then forwards
C) Simultaneously
D) Forwards, then backwards
Free will exists, according to the Tralfamadorians:
A) Only on Earth
B) On every planet
C) In a galaxy far, far away
D) Free will does not exist, it is a concept made up by Earthlings
What is Vonnegut's central message by the end of the novel?
A) Do not glorify war because it undercuts the dignity of mankind
B) A satirization of antiwar ideals, along with the ignorance towards death and massacre, along with issues of time and memory
C) The author means to address the cultural problems that are associated with World War II, and wishes to bring awareness to readers on these issues
D) All of the above
What does Billy's time traveling really represent?
A) Mental instability
B) Dreams
C) His way of reliving the past
D) Billy does not time travel in the novel
