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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) Bunny.
(b) The billing office.
(c) The operating room.
(d) Francine.

2. What do the driver and Kilgore talk about as they travel through the mining town?
(a) The destruction the coal mines are causing.
(b) The advancements their generation has made.
(c) How competitive the coal mining industry is.
(d) Local practice of snake handling.

3. Who is Beatrice Keedlser?
(a) A writer of children's books.
(b) A novelist.
(c) A museum curator.
(d) A painter.

4. Who invites Wayne into the hotel after noticing that he is loitering?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) The receptionist.
(c) The cook.
(d) Dwayne.

5. How does The Narrator celebrate his birthday at the end of the novel?
(a) By writing a new novel.
(b) By burning the novel.
(c) By celebrating with the characters.
(d) By freeing all of his characters.

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

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

8. What is Kilgore reading as he travels in Chapter 16?
(a) This Is The Time.
(b) A pornographic magazine.
(c) Midland City Magazine.
(d) Now It Can Be Told.

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

10. Where does Kilgore see the coal mining landscape?
(a) West Virginia.
(b) Maine.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) New Jersey.

11. Who does Dwayne beat when he reaches the car dealership?
(a) Vernon.
(b) Francine.
(c) Harry.
(d) Kilgore.

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

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

14. What error does The Narrator note about Kilgore that he should change, but will not because it would be too complicated?
(a) The trip and its timeline.
(b) Bunny playing the piano.
(c) Francine's character.
(d) Celia's suicide.

15. Who sits in the hotel lounge with Dwayne and Bunny, after Dwayne arrives and has a martini?
(a) Kilgore.
(b) Francine.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kilgore notice about what he is wading through?

2. What is the book that Kilgore skims through during the drive about?

3. Who is playing music while Dwayne is in the hotel at the beginning of Chapter 18?

4. After The Narrator decides to do something new with the novel, how does he accomplish this objective?

5. Who does Kilgore realize is watching him in the hotel lounge?

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