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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Dwayne respond to what Bunny said at ten years-old?
(a) He sent him to a psychiatrist.
(b) He sent him to live with relatives.
(c) He sent him to military school.
(d) He grounded him.

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

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

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

14. 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) Create a new character.
(d) Start from the beginning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?

2. What is Harry wearing at the car dealership in Chapter 13?

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

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

5. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?

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