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Slaughterhouse Five
Worksheet 1 (1-71)
Identify the following:
1. Billy Pilgrim
2. Robert
3. Barbara
4. Roland Weary
5. Valencia Merble
6. Wild Bob
7. Children's Crusade
Why does Vonnegut say he loves Lot's wife?
Worksheet 2 (72-153) Add more details to existing characters as they become known to you.
1. Tralfamadorians
2. Edgar Derby
3. Paul Lazzaro
4. Eliot Rosewater
5. Kilgore Trout
6. Howard W. Campbell Jr.
7. Prof. Bertram Copeland Rumfoord
8. Montana Wildhack
9. Schlachthof Funf
Vonnegut uses
satire (the use of literature to expose vices or follies) in discussing the rules of war (33, 74-5) when he has Billy watching a war movie in reverse.
What is satirical about the following; That's the attractive thing about war," said Rosewater. "Absolutely everybody gets a little something." (111)
Worksheet 3 (154-215) Add more details to existing
characters as they become known to you.
1. Lionel Merble
2. Werner Gluck
3. Maggie White
4. Lilly
What is the irony (humor used to show the opposite of what's written) of the scenes on pages 172
and 178 involving a barbershop quartet?
What is the irony of the two obstetricians on page 196?
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