What is a frame story?

A story that introduces another story

Vonnegut describes the deaths of many people. In what sorts of ways do most of them die?

Accidents: carbon monoxide, plane crash, hunting accidents, etc.

How is Billy Pilgrim portrayed as looking and acting?

Shaped like a Coke bottle and ill-equipped to fight a war

When was the first time Billy Pilgrim became "unstuck in time"?

When he was a chaplain's assistant in WWII

Why did Harrison Star say that he ought to write an "anti-glacier" book rather than an anti-war book?

Both topics were pointless to argue against

What is the significance of the phrase 'A Duty Dance With Death'?

It's an allusion to Celine's belief that no art is possible without death

What did Kurt Vonnegut suggest should be the climax of his famous war book?

Edgar Derby's death for stealing a tea pot

What happened during the Children's Crusade?

Children were tricked into slavery and many died at sea

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S-Five Ch. 1 & beginning Ch. 2 (up to pg 35) Panicacci

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1
Who is Bernard V. O'Hare?
The cab driver in Dresden
Kurt Vonnegut's editor at the Chicago City News
A classmate of Vonnegut's from Cornell
Kurt Vonnegut's war buddy
2
What is metafiction?
Fiction about our human existence and what it all means
Fiction about theoretical topics
Fiction about fiction; it reminds readers they're reading a made up story
Fiction about space and the great beyond
3
Who is Roland Weary?
The man who would become Billy's best friend
Mary O'Hare's brother
An 18-year-old, foul-mouthed, anti-tank gunner who smells like bacon
The cab driver Vonnegut dedicates the book to
4
What is a frame story?
A story in which a character is "framed" for a crime
A story told through a series of letters
A story that introduces another story
A story that flashes back in time
5
At the end of Ch. 1, Kurt Vonnegut, as the narrator, compares himself to which Biblical character?
Lot's wife
Eve
The prodigal son
Cain
6
Vonnegut describes the deaths of many people. In what sorts of ways do most of them die?
They're not dead; they're abducted by the Tralfamadorians
Accidents: carbon monoxide, plane crash, hunting accidents, etc.
In war-related ways such as getting blown up or shot
Naturally of old age
7
How is Billy Pilgrim portrayed as looking and acting?
Young but budding with potential
Handsome and strong
Odd looking but wise beyond his years
Shaped like a Coke bottle and ill-equipped to fight a war
8
When was the first time Billy Pilgrim became "unstuck in time"?
On his wedding day
When he was a chaplain's assistant in WWII
As a child in Ilium, NY
After he was the lone survivor of the plane crash
9
Why did Harrison Star say that he ought to write an "anti-glacier" book rather than an anti-war book?
Climate change is deadlier than war
He was pro-war
Both topics were pointless to argue against
Kurt Vonnegut studied glaciers at Cornell
10
The incineration of 25,000 people at Dresden would likely be a war crime if committed today
True
False
11
What is the significance of the phrase 'A Duty Dance With Death'?
It is an allusion to the PTSD Celine suffered as a solider in WWI
It's an allusion to Celine's belief that no art is possible without death
It's an allusion to Celine's belief that soldiers must accept death as fate
It's an allusion to Celine's belief that death is the "duty" of all humans
12
What happened to Billy on Tralfamador?
Billy continued working as an optometrist
Billy became the Tralfamadorians' leader
Billy doesn't remember
Billy was displayed in a zoo
13
What did Kurt Vonnegut suggest should be the climax of his famous war book?
The Tralfamadorians blowing up Earth
Billy Pilgrim as a hero who saves another soldier's life
Kurt Vonnegut winning a Pulitzer for his great war novel
Edgar Derby's death for stealing a tea pot
14
What happened during the Children's Crusade?
30K children successfully fought in Palestine for the Pope
Monks recruited thousands of children so they could be educated
Children were indoctrinated into the Catholic religion
Children were tricked into slavery and many died at sea
15
The phrase "and so it goes" repeats in the novel every time ...
Billy Pilgrim moves to a new time period
there is a mention of war
there is a mention of death
The narrator draws a comparison between free will and fate

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