English - Slaughterhouse Five

Question 1

Billy

Answer 1

“He looked like a filthy flamingo”
“This isn’t a man. It’s a broken kite”
“She upset Billy simply by being his mother”
“Supposed that he was a splendid specimen”
“Billy Pilgrim was Cinderella”
“He had been rewarded for marrying a girl nobody in his right might would have”

Question 2

Free will

Answer 2

“Among the things Billy couldn’t change were the past, the present and the future”
“Only on Earth is there any talk of free will”
“It was fate which had consumed him-fate, and a feeble will to survive”

Question 3

War / Death

Answer 3

“One of the main effects of war is that people are discouraged from being characters”
“Nobody had any good war stories to tell.”
“the idea of preventing war on earth is stupid”
“It had been built as a shelter for pigs about to be butchered”
“There was nothing appropriate to say”

Question 4

Human nature

Answer 4

“a sort of post-coital satisfaction.”
“They do not love one another because they do not love themselves”
“He spoke of the brotherhood… The air raid sirens of Dresden howled mournfully.”

Question 5

Trauma

Answer 5

“So it goes”
“Every so often, for no apparent reason, Billy Pilgrim would find himself weeping.”
“Jiggled as he wept”
“Everybody was killed but Billy and the co-pilot”

Question 6

Intertextuality

Answer 6

Performance of Cinderella
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (rosewater)
The Spirit of ‘76
Barbershop Quartet “That Old Gang of Mine”

Question 7

Leit motifs

Answer 7

“Billy Pilgrim nestled like a spoon with the hobo on Christmas night”
“Spooning was a crime”