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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Bunny Hoover?
(a) Dwayne's biological brother.
(b) Dwayne's cousin.
(c) Dwayne's mother.
(d) Dwayne's son.

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

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

7. What has Kilgore often imagined that he remembers when he sees The Narrator in the lounge?
(a) That he is the same person as The Narrator.
(b) That whatever Kilgore writes comes true.
(c) That he is a character in someone's novel.
(d) That The Narrator is a character from one of Kilgore's stories.

8. What does The Narrator decide to do about the novel at the beginning of Chapter 22?
(a) Get rid of a character.
(b) Speed up the pace.
(c) Start from the beginning.
(d) Create a new character.

9. What does Kilgore decide after the driver tells him about the bad novel he has read?
(a) To change his name.
(b) To make more copies of the book to sell.
(c) To remain anonymous.
(d) To tell the man he wrote the book.

10. What does Harry infer about Dwayne's ignoring him at the car dealership?
(a) That the company is in trouble.
(b) That Dwayne is going to fire him.
(c) That Dwayne knows Harry is a transvestite.
(d) That Dwayne thinks Harry is unfaithful to his wife.

11. What is Wayne instructed to do once he comes inside the hotel and eats a steak?
(a) To help wash the dishes.
(b) To leave once he is done eating.
(c) To look through a peephole.
(d) To fill out a server application.

12. What do Harry and his wife, Grace, decide to do after he arrives home from work?
(a) Take money from Dwayne and run away.
(b) Convince Dwayne to make Harry the manager.
(c) Liquidate their stocks and move to Maui.
(d) Divorce and go their separate ways.

13. What did Bunny tell Dwayne when he was ten years-old?
(a) He thought he was adopted.
(b) He wanted to be a woman.
(c) He wanted to be like his dad.
(d) He hated the piano.

14. What does Kilgore see that caused the traffic jam he was stuck in?
(a) Road work.
(b) A car hijacking.
(c) Fatal car crash.
(d) A dead cow.

15. When Dwayne has difficulty hitting the person he finds in the hotel parking lot after his rampage, what does he do instead?
(a) Asks the person for a ride home.
(b) Lectures on race relations and slavery.
(c) Throws pieces of trash at the person.
(d) Runs back inside of the hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does The Narrator note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?

2. Where do Francine and Dwayne meet after he calls her?

3. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of when he meets him face to face?

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

5. Who does Dwayne find in the parking lot when he leaves the hotel after his rampage?

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