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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens to Bunny while he is playing piano?
2. What drove everyone out of the Sacred Miracle Cave?
3. What does Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?
4. What does Dwayne take off of Kilgore's table?
5. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Patty Keene flirt with Dwayne while she serves him hamburgers?
2. Why is Harry devastated at the beginning of Chapter 13?
3. What is the parallel between Dwayne's irrelevant phrases and the narrative?
4. What is one of the events in the novel that The Narrator believes he could have done differently?
5. Why did Dwayne send his son, Bunny, to a military school?
6. What does Dwayne do when he fails to punch Wayne outside of the hotel?
7. Why does the sight of The Narrator in the hotel Lobby make Kilgore nervous?
8. What does The Narrator say about himself, Kilgore and Dwayne once they are all in the hotel lounge?
9. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?
10. What is the conflict that Dwayne might have with his twin brothers, Lyle and Kyle?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the Prologue, The Narrator describes his childhood, including his relationship with Phoebe Hurty whose atypical views largely influenced The Narrator's views. Based on the information The Narrator provides and what the reader learns about Kilgore throughout the novel, is it possible that Kilgore is a self representation of The Narrator? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
How could the Sacred Miracle Cave that Kyle and Lyle Hoover run be a metaphor for Breakfast of Champions? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
After seeing a message scrawled on the wall of the bathroom in the pornography theatre, Kilgore ponders the question at length. Discuss this scene with a clear thesis explaining why Kilgore devotes such attention to the question and how it affects him.
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