Characters
Time-slipping optometrist
Billy Pilgrim
What is the most common quote in the book?
"So it goes"
The city firebombed by the Allies in February 1945 where Billy was held prisoner
Dresden
What medical condition of Billy/Vonnegut is conveyed throughout the book?
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Who do Trout's stories have an impact on?
Billy Pilgrim
Unappreciated sci-fi author of many novels that had a large impact on Billy
Kilgore Trout
Opening line of the first chapter, addressed directly to the reader
"All this happened, more or less."
Billy's job before the war
Optometrist
Central theme reflected by "so it goes"
The futility of war/meaningless deaths/inevitability of death
What is the purpose of Trout's character?
Recurring alter-ego to Kurt Vonnegut
Taxi driver who drove Vonnegut back to Slaughterhouse 5
Gerhard Müller
Who says "You were just babies in the war"?
Mary O'Hare
Where Billy and fellow POWs were kept during the firebombing
Slaughterhouse 5/Meat locker
What was the original title of the book, inspired by a real event?
The Children's Crusade
How many novels has Trout written?
117+
This man was sentenced to execution by firing squad for stealing a teapot
Edgar Derby
Very last line of the book.
"One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, 'Poo-tee-weet?'"
What is the fictional city that Billy is from?
Ilium, New York
What is the main philosophy expressed in the novel?
Fatalism
What real-world individual provided the inspiration for the creation of Trout's character?
Theodore Sturgeon
History professor and Billy's hospital roommate
Bertram Copeland Rumfoord
"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist…"
"…it is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another"
Billy's savior whether he likes it or not.
Roland Weary
How does Vonnegut show that he struggles to remember the war clearly?
Non-linear time, gives a fractured image of the events
Where were Trout's works mainly used/found?
Fillers for in.... magazines.