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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is one of Dwayne's talents that allows him to understand the message Kilgore gives him?
(a) Logical reasoning.
(b) Giving speeches.
(c) Acute hearing.
(d) Speed reading.

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

7. Who is playing music while Dwayne is in the hotel at the beginning of Chapter 18?
(a) Francine.
(b) Bunny.
(c) Kilgore.
(d) The Narrator.

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

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

10. What does Kilgore do when he is stuck in traffic on the way to Midland City?
(a) Gets out and walks.
(b) Tells the driver to make a u-turn.
(c) Honks the horn.
(d) Calls home to check his messages.

11. What does Bunny do for a living?
(a) Pianist.
(b) Police officer.
(c) Construction.
(d) Teacher.

12. 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.

13. What happens to Dwayne once the police arrive at the scene of the beating?
(a) He is injected with a serum.
(b) He is strapped down.
(c) He is beaten by the police.
(d) He is knocked unconscious.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the bad novel the driver tells Kilgore about?

2. What is Kilgore devastated about after being recognized at the hotel?

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

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

5. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?

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