Slaughterhouse-Five

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. What is the narrator’s odd social habit?

A) He collects boots from war veterans.

B) He gets drunk and calls up old friends.

C) He keeps retelling the same war joke.

D) He cries in public watching war movies.

2. What type of poem does the narrator quote?

A) haiku

B) limericks

C) sonnets

D) shanties

3. In the narrator’s opinion, what effect did World War II have on everyone involved?

A) It made them very tough.

B) It made them very fragile.

C) It made them less loving.

D) It made them more loving.

4. What curious ability does Billy Pilgrim possess?

A) He can recite all the digits of pi.

B) He can go without any sleep.

C) He can speak any language.

D) He can travel through time.

5. What strange thing does Billy believe happened to him?