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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Kyle and Lyle say is happening at the Sacred Miracle Cave?
(a) It is losing its tourist appeal and making less money.
(b) It is filling up with industrial waste.
(c) Too many animals are nesting inside.
(d) Kids have been spray painting the cave walls.

2. What can the reader do, according to the literature Kilgore is reading?
(a) Nothing. The reader is a slave.
(b) Discover free will.
(c) What the creator deems necessary.
(d) Anything at anytime.

3. Who does Kilgore realize is watching him in the hotel lounge?
(a) Dwayne.
(b) Wayne.
(c) Bunny.
(d) The Narrator.

4. What does Kilgore wade through at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) A polluted stream.
(b) Someone's backyard pool.
(c) The Hudson River.
(d) The Midland City River.

5. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?
(a) New York City.
(b) Existentialism.
(c) A negative life.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Narrator state is the surprising spiritual climax of the novel?

2. What does Dwayne think about himself after reading Kilgore's book?

3. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?

4. What is one of Dwayne's talents that allows him to understand the message Kilgore gives him?

5. What has Kilgore often imagined that he remembers when he sees The Narrator in the lounge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the sight of The Narrator in the hotel Lobby make Kilgore nervous?

2. What does Dwayne do when he fails to punch Wayne outside of the hotel?

3. What does The Narrator state is the spiritual climax of the novel?

4. Why does The Narrator place himself in the hotel lounge scene?

5. What is one of the events in the novel that The Narrator believes he could have done differently?

6. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?

7. Why does Patty Keene flirt with Dwayne while she serves him hamburgers?

8. In Chapter 20, what does the desk clerk at the hotel say to Kilgore about his work?

9. What is the book the driver describes having read that Kilgore realizes is one of his own novels about?

10. What does Dwayne do to Francine on his violent rampage?

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