Q 01/05

Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?

A) Kurt Vonnegut

B) Joseph Heller

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Norman Mailer

Answer · why

A) Kurt Vonnegut

He was himself a prisoner of war in the city when it was firebombed.

Q 02/05

What is the name of the novel's protagonist?

A) Kilgore Trout

B) Billy Pilgrim

C) Eliot Rosewater

D) Roland Weary

Answer · why

B) Billy Pilgrim

He is a chaplain's assistant in the war and later a wealthy professional in upstate New York.

Q 03/05

In which month and year does the firestorm the prisoners survive take place?

A) December 1944

B) May 1945

C) February 1945

D) September 1944

Answer · why

C) February 1945

The German guards hid their captives in a partly underground slaughterhouse.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the planet whose inhabitants abduct Billy and put him in a zoo?

A) Trantor Major

B) Titan-Beta

C) Ilium-Prime

D) Tralfamadore

Answer · why

D) Tralfamadore

They see in four dimensions and observe every moment of time at once.

Q 05/05

Which three-word phrase does the narrator repeat whenever a death is mentioned?

A) 'So it goes'

B) 'And so on'

C) 'Poo-tee-weet'

D) 'Listen, Billy'

Answer · why

A) 'So it goes'

It appears 106 times, serving as refrain, transition, memento mori and comic relief.