Time traveling soldier/ ophthalmologist Billy Pilgrim is the featured character of what Kurt Vonnegut novel?

• A. Cat's Cradle
• B. Slaughterhouse-Five
• C. Mother Night
• D. Bluebeard

Answer: (B)

Recognizing the novel by its time-traveling protagonist. Billy Pilgrim is a WWII soldier who becomes unstuck in time, hopping to different moments in his life, and he later works as an eye doctor after the war. This combination of a time-traveling central character and Vonnegut’s satirical, anti-war lens is the signature setup of Slaughterhouse-Five. Other Vonnegut works feature different leads—Cat's Cradle focuses on a narrator and a scientist, Mother Night centers on a spy, and Bluebeard follows a painter—so the telltale pairing of Billy Pilgrim and the time-travel motif points to Slaughterhouse-Five.