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15 Cards in this Set
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Who is the first-person narrator in Chapter One of the novel?
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Which author does Vonnegut quote as having said, “No art is possible without a dance with death”?
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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What is Billy Pilgrim’s hometown?
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Ilium
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According to Billy Pilgrim, how many dimensions can the Tralfamadorians see?
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Four
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What name does Roland Weary apply to himself and the two American scouts?
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The Three Musketeers
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What is Billy’s civilian profession?
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Optometry
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What prayer hangs in Billy’s office?
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The Serenity Prayer
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While on Tralfamadore, where does Billy stay?
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in a zoo
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To what does the novel’s title, Slaughterhouse-Five, refer?
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It is where Billy and the other prisoners of war are kept in Dresden
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Who arranges to have Billy killed in 1976?
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Paul Lazzarro
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Vonnegut describes his novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, as “short and jumbled and jangled.” Why does he say this is so?
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Because there is nothing “intelligent” to be said about massacres
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For stealing what item is Edgar Derby executed by firing squad?
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a teapot
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How does Billy’s wife, Valencia, die?
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carbon monoxide poisoning
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To what elite military group does Billy’s son belong?
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Green Berets
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In the last chapter, what does Vonnegut tell us his father left to him when he died?
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his guns
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