Slaughterhouse-Five
The German city where Vonnegut and Billy Pilgrim are prisoners of war; it is fire bombed.
What is Dresden?
The species of bird that the Ancient Mariner shoots with his crossbow.
What is an albatross?
The location where Sethe kills her daughter.
What is the cold house / shed next to 124?
The number of boarders that Gregor's family takes on to help afford their apartment.
What is three?
The animal Heather Lelache compares herself to in the first chapter we see her.
What is a black widow spider?
The war that America was involved in that was ongoing at the time of the novel's publication.
What is the Vietnam War?
The eternal punishment of the Ancient Mariner.
What is he must wander the land and repeatedly tell his story?
The fun activity that Sethe, Beloved, and Denver do together after Paul D has left 124; it shows their unity.
What is ice skating?
The instrument that Gregor's sister Grete plays.
What is a violin?
The scientific term Dr. Haber uses for the phase of sleep in which George has his effective dreams.
What is the d-state?
What a Tralfamadorian looks like.
What is like upright toilet plungers with a hand on top, into which is set a single green eye?
The name of the adviser to Alonso, the King of Naples; before the events of the play he helped Prospero and Miranda survive by giving them supplies when they were forced into exile.
Who is Gonzalo?
The names of all four of Sethe's children.
Who are Howard, Buglar, Beloved, and Denver?
The item of food that Gregor's father throws at Gregor, injuring him.
What is an apple?
The first effective dream George Orr describes having.
What is dreaming his aunt was killed in a car crash?
Billy Pilgrim's job (following the war).
What is an optometrist?
The two characters who play dice for the souls of the crew in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Who are Death and Life-in-Death?
What Amy Denver says she is going to Boston to buy when she comes across Sethe.
What is red velvet?
Gregor's job before his metamorphosis.
What is a traveling salesman?
The name of the president of the USA throughout nearly all of the continuums.
What is President Merdle?
What Vonnegut says his breath smells like in Slaughterhouse-Five after he has been drinking.
What is like "mustard gas and roses"?
The character in The Tempest who says, "O brave new world, that has such people in it!"
Who is Miranda?
Stamp Paid's real name.
What is Joshua?
The character in the novella who disparagingly calls Gregor an "old dung beetle."
Who is the charwoman?
What the dreaming mind is compared to metaphorically in the first page of The Lathe of Heaven.
What is a jellyfish drifting in the ocean?