What is Goethe's most famous book.

Faust about a man who sells his soul to the devil for wisdom

a person displaying qualities of both or neither gender

dizziness, loss of balance, fear of heights

What is the first line of Theodore Roethke's villanelle?

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

What is the Subtitle of Slaughterhouse-Five

The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death

Why was Billy not dressed for the weather in Germany?

He came from his father's funeral.

Why was the locomotive and last car of the train marked with an orange and black banner?

So planes could tell it was a prisoner train.

The opposite of what is expected happens.

What happens to Billy on Tralfamadore

He is naked in a zoo and forced to mate with a porn star.

Who rings Billy Pilgrim's doorbell?

A cripple selling magazine subscriptions

A person making a trip for religious reasons.

What does Billy do when he's shot at?

Stands in the road giving the shooter a second chance.

Why was Mary O'Hare angry when she met Vonnegut?

She thought he'd make the soldiers seem like heroes.

A scientist studying human history.

What happens when Billy takes a plane to an optometrists' convention in Montreal?

The plane crashes and only he survives.

How did the prisoners treat each other on the train?

They took turns sleeping and shared food.

A colonel whose entire regiment died.

What is the opening line of the novel?

All this happened, more or less.

Describe the 5 soldiers that captured Weary and Pilgrim.

Two teens, two old men, and a middle-aged corporal

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1
What is Goethe's most famous book.
The Sorrow of Young Werner about suicide
Faust about a man who sells his soul to the devil for wisdom
Dresden a history of the city
The Communist Manifesto
2
What German city was fire-bombed?
Dresden
Hiroshima
Berlin
Bonn
3
Androgyne
A robot
a person displaying qualities of both or neither gender
A doctor who specializes in men's health
Spinning until unable to stand
4
Vertigo
dizziness, loss of balance, fear of heights
part of the spine
a green lawn ending at a pond
a small, wild cat
5
What is the first line of Theodore Roethke's villanelle?
My name is Yon Yonson,
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Turning and turning in a widening gyre.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
6
Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
J. K. Rowling
Mark Twain
Ken Kesey
7
What is the Subtitle of Slaughterhouse-Five
The Whale
A Novel Without a Hero
A Dentist at War
The Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death
8
Hue
grades or shades of color
German word for nose
A brand of rifle
Bigger than expected
9
Why was Billy not dressed for the weather in Germany?
He traded hi boots for cigarets.
A chaplain's helper was not given a uniform.
He came from his father's funeral.
It was September and no one expected the cold.
10
What shoes does Roland Weary get when the Germans take his boots.
a pair of shoes with the toes cut out
His feet are cut off
Hinged clogs
He only has socks
11
Soliloquized
Fight without weapons
A type of sherbet or ice-cream
Sing in the shower
Talk to him/herself
12
Why was the locomotive and last car of the train marked with an orange and black banner?
So planes could tell it was a prisoner train.
All the German trains were marked that way
It was Halloween.
They were Hitler’s favorite colors
13
Situational irony
The opposite of what is expected happens.
Swords made of cast iron
Exageration
The protagonist is killed.
14
What happens to Billy on Tralfamadore
He misses every important event in his life.
He learns to control time travel.
Everything he knows is stolen from his brain.
He is naked in a zoo and forced to mate with a porn star.
15
Who rings Billy Pilgrim's doorbell?
An old army friend
The neighbor is checking on him.
A cripple selling magazine subscriptions
He rings his own bell after time traveling.
16
Pilgrim
Men who wore buckles on their hats.
Anyone who steals land from native people.
A pharmacist
A person making a trip for religious reasons.
17
What phrase is used after bad news in the novel.
Just go with it.
As was expected.
So it goes.
C'est la vie.
18
What does Billy Pilgrim look like?
He is short and fat.
He is bulked up with a tattoo of a skull on his shoulder.
He is tall and very thin.
He is average in every way.
19
Putrid
The smell of rotting flesh
Keeping everything exactly where it belongs
Made of stone
Eliminating lice from a home
20
What does Billy do when he's shot at?
Shoots five German soldiers, saving his platoon.
Runs away.
Stands in the road giving the shooter a second chance.
Disappears to Tralfamadore
21
Why was Mary O'Hare angry when she met Vonnegut?
Her husband drank too much with him.
He had stolen her diary and published it.
She had to babysit Vonnegut's daughter.
She thought he'd make the soldiers seem like heroes.
22
Pneumatic
Wind
Burnt into volcanic ash
Continues working after being started
Using air pressure
23
Anthropologist
A scientist studying the magnetic pull of earth.
A scientist studying war.
A scientist studying human history.
A scientist studying insects.
24
What happens when Billy takes a plane to an optometrists' convention in Montreal?
He is kidnapped by the Tralfamadorians.
Time stops. Billy slides sideways into a parallel universe.
The plane crashes and only he survives.
He meets his future wife.
25
Who are the time traveling aliens?
Narnians
Tralfamadorians
Tatooinians
Gallifreyans
26
How did the prisoners treat each other on the train?
They were all too sick to care.
The strongest men took everything.
They took turns sleeping and shared food.
Some prisoners were killed.
27
Who is Wild Bob?
The pilot who crashes the plane full of optometrists
The alien that helps Billy escape.
A colonel whose entire regiment died.
A street performer with a cowboy hat
28
What is the opening line of the novel?
Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Call me Ishmael.
All this happened, more or less.
29
Describe the 5 soldiers that captured Weary and Pilgrim.
A group of farmers from the nearby village
They fell into a trap
Three blue-eyed German soldiers
Two teens, two old men, and a middle-aged corporal
30
What did Roland Weary's father collect?
Medieval swords
Stamps
Torture devices
Coins

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