Q 01/05

Billy Pilgrim's son Robert, a teenage troublemaker, grows up to join which US special forces unit?

A) The Navy SEALs

B) The Green Berets

C) The Army Rangers

D) The Delta Force

Answer · why

B) The Green Berets

The Green Berets: the former troublemaker ends up fighting in the Vietnam War as a Green Beret.

Q 02/05

What is Billy Pilgrim's job in the US Army during World War II?

A) Military policeman

B) Radio operator

C) Chaplain's assistant

D) Combat medic

Answer · why

C) Chaplain's assistant

Chaplain's assistant: barely trained, Billy never meets his chaplain or gets a proper helmet or boots, and ends up wandering lost behind German lines.

Q 03/05

What does a filmmaker tell Vonnegut to write instead of an anti-war book?

A) An anti-earthquake book

B) An anti-gravity book

C) An anti-tide book

D) An anti-glacier book

Answer · why

D) An anti-glacier book

An anti-glacier book: what he meant, Vonnegut explains, is that wars will always come and are as easy to stop as glaciers.

Q 04/05

Which planet's inhabitants abduct Billy Pilgrim and put him on display in a zoo?

A) Magrathea

B) Gallifrey

C) Trantor

D) Tralfamadore

Answer · why

D) Tralfamadore

Tralfamadore: after a 1968 plane crash Billy tells a New York radio show about the abduction, and his daughter Barbara has to fetch him home.

Q 05/05

Which three-word phrase does Slaughterhouse-Five repeat whenever a death is mentioned?

A) 'So it goes'

B) 'And so on'

C) 'Such is life'

D) 'That was that'

Answer · why

A) 'So it goes'

'So it goes' is what Billy's alien abductors say about the dead, since to them a person who dies is still just fine in plenty of other moments.