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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where do Francine and Dwayne meet after he calls her?
(a) A motel.
(b) The Holiday Inn.
(c) Dwayne's house.
(d) A restaurant.

4. 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 coming from an all natural spring.
(d) It is the result of the Midland City power plant.

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

6. What does Francine do with her day after Dwayne leaves the motel?
(a) Looks for Dwayne.
(b) Catches up on work.
(c) Leaves work early.
(d) Quits her job.

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

8. Where does Kilgore walk to after leaving the car and wading through the water?
(a) The arts festival.
(b) The burger restaurant.
(c) Home.
(d) The hotel lounge.

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

10. What does The Narrator claim to be unaware of in the Epilogue?
(a) The arts festival's cancellation.
(b) A vicious dog stalking him.
(c) Dwayne's whereabouts.
(d) What has happened to Kilgore.

11. What does Kilgore wade through at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) The Midland City River.
(b) The Hudson River.
(c) A polluted stream.
(d) Someone's backyard pool.

12. Who recognizes Kilgore when he arrives at his destination in Midland City?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) The desk clerk.
(c) The bellhop.
(d) Dwayne.

13. What disorder does Dwayne develop as he teeters on the edge of sanity?
(a) Tourette's.
(b) Echolalia.
(c) Dementia.
(d) Amnesia.

14. What did Rabo tell the people surrounding him at the piano to make them adore him?
(a) An explanation of his art.
(b) How much he practices.
(c) A story about his first audition.
(d) That he is self-taught.

15. What does Kilgore do when he leaves the hospital?
(a) Fills out a report for the police.
(b) Tries to find Dwayne.
(c) Looks for the arts festival.
(d) Tries to contact Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the 17-year-old waitress that serves Dwayne his hamburger?

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

4. Who is Bunny Hoover?

5. When Dwayne has difficulty hitting the person he finds in the hotel parking lot after his rampage, what does he do instead?

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