1. Read the Gospel of St. Luke in the Bible and illustrate its impact on Billy's "Tralfamadorian adventure with death."

2. Investigate and describe the bombing of Dresden. Provide details about Dresden's cultural history leading up to the time it was bombed.

3. Explore and elucidate the philosophical notion of determinism.

4. Examine the Children's Crusade and discuss why Vonnegut deemed it a fitting subtitle for his novel.

5. Delve into the genre of twentieth-century literature known as "the absurd," and identify some "absurd" elements present in Slaughterhouse-Five.