FREE! Click here to Join FunTrivia. Thousands of games, quizzes, and lots more!
Quiz about Slaughterhouse Five  Part III
Quiz about Slaughterhouse Five  Part III

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.
  1. Home
  2. »
  3. Quizzes
  4. »
  5. Literature Trivia
  6. »
  7. Authors T-Z
  8. »
  9. Kurt Vonnegut

Author
oofahlandian
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
251,690
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
10 / 15
Plays
739
Awards
Top 10% Quiz
- -
Question 1 of 15
1. The Tralfamadorians see all time at once. According to one of the aliens, how does the universe end? Hint


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


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


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


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


Question 6 of 15
6. Where does Billy die after addressing a "large crowd on the subject of flying saucers?" Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. Why did the Englishman say that the Americans needn't worry about being moved to Dresden? Hint


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


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


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


Question 11 of 15
11. What did Valencia die of? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. After the war, which allied power occupied Dresden? Hint


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


Question 14 of 15
14. According to the narrator, which Earthling is most engaging to the Tralfamadorians? Hint


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



(Optional) Create a Free FunTrivia ID to save the points you are about to earn:

arrow Select a User ID:
arrow Choose a Password:
arrow Your Email:




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

This quiz was reviewed by FunTrivia editor MotherGoose before going online.
Any errors found in FunTrivia content are routinely corrected through our feedback system.
3/29/2024, Copyright 2024 FunTrivia, Inc. - Report an Error / Contact Us