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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Kyle and Lyle?
(a) Dwayne's twin brothers.
(b) Dwayne's children.
(c) Dwayne's cousins.
(d) Dwayne's uncles.

2. What happens to Dwayne as he remains in the hotel lounge and more central characters arrive?
(a) He starts to cry.
(b) He sinks deeper into confusion.
(c) He has an outburst.
(d) He picks a fight with Kilgore.

3. What does Dwayne ask Kilgore when he finally walks over to his table after The Narrator speeds up the novel's pace?
(a) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.
(b) To help him with his problems.
(c) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.
(d) To help him write a story about his life.

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

5. What did Kyle and Lyle use to get rid of the bubbles in the cave?
(a) Water.
(b) A jack hammer.
(c) Industrial soap.
(d) Their shotguns.

6. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?
(a) "Now it can be told!"
(b) "Happy hour!"
(c) "Breakfast of champions!"
(d) "Goodbye blue Monday!"

7. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?
(a) A deadbeat.
(b) A solution to her financial problems.
(c) Unattractive and unfaithful.
(d) Love of her life.

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

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

10. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?
(a) Kilgore.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) Vernon.
(d) Harry.

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

12. What does Kilgore notice about what he is wading through?
(a) It is also flowing to the Sacred Miracle Cave.
(b) It is coming from his house.
(c) It is the result of the Midland City power plant.
(d) It coming from an all natural spring.

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

14. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?
(a) The operating room.
(b) Francine.
(c) The billing office.
(d) Bunny.

15. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about free will?
(a) It is in everyone.
(b) Only the reader has it.
(c) It is not what we think it is.
(d) Only the creator possesses it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What birthday does The Narrator celebrate at the end of the novel?

2. What does The Narrator say about his own mother and Bunny's mother, Celia?

3. What does The Narrator decide to do about the novel at the beginning of Chapter 22?

4. What do the driver and Kilgore talk about as they travel through the mining town?

5. What did Rabo tell the people surrounding him at the piano to make them adore him?

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