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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the book that Kilgore skims through during the drive about?
(a) The meaning of life from different religious viewpoints.
(b) What is going to happen ten years from now.
(c) A letter from the creator of the universe to the reader.
(d) How people in the future continually try to regain the past.

2. In chapter 21, who surrounds Rabo at the piano in the hotel lounge?
(a) Syncophants.
(b) A string quartet.
(c) His family and friends.
(d) Conductors.

3. What does Dwayne take off of Kilgore's table?
(a) One of Kilgore's manuscripts.
(b) The book, Now It Can Be Told.
(c) Kilgore's plate of food.
(d) Kilgore's drink.

4. What does Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?
(a) Assaults other patrons.
(b) Smashes plates against the walls.
(c) Kills the desk clerk.
(d) Turns over the tables.

5. What does Kilgore discover as the driver describes the bad novel?
(a) It is his favorite novel.
(b) He knows the author who wrote it.
(c) It is one of his novels.
(d) He has read the novel as well.

6. What is one of Dwayne's talents that allows him to understand the message Kilgore gives him?
(a) Logical reasoning.
(b) Acute hearing.
(c) Giving speeches.
(d) Speed reading.

7. Who does Dwayne find in the parking lot when he leaves the hotel after his rampage?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) Kilgore.
(c) The cook.
(d) Wayne.

8. What drove everyone out of the Sacred Miracle Cave?
(a) The animal droppings.
(b) The bats that fly around the cave.
(c) The acidic waste.
(d) The stink of the bubbles bursting.

9. Who is the first victim of Dwayne's psychotic, violent rampage?
(a) Rabo.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) Bunny.
(d) Kilgore.

10. What has Rabo just sold to Midland City?
(a) A new space for an exhibition.
(b) An over-priced painting.
(c) His portfolio of drawings.
(d) His art gallery.

11. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of when he meets him face to face?
(a) That he is not a good writer.
(b) That he is a fictional character.
(c) That he is a freethinker.
(d) That he will die soon.

12. What does Wayne do after watching the patrons through the peephole?
(a) Asks Rabo if he could play the piano.
(b) Walks over to join in the conversation.
(c) Goes outside.
(d) Continues eating.

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

14. What birthday does The Narrator celebrate at the end of the novel?
(a) His 40th.
(b) His 60th.
(c) His 30th.
(d) His 50th.

15. Who is wearing mirrored sunglasses in the hotel lounge?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) Dwayne.
(c) Francine.
(d) Kilgore.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What direction is Kilgore traveling in at the beginning of Chapter 16?

3. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?

4. What is Wayne instructed to do once he comes inside the hotel and eats a steak?

5. What is the bad novel the driver tells Kilgore about?

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