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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Bunny while he is playing piano?
(a) He goes into a trance.
(b) He becomes giddy.
(c) He gets into a good mood.
(d) He thinks about other songs to play.

3. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?
(a) It is irrational and illogical.
(b) It is exactly what the creator of the universe wants.
(c) It is slowly chipping away at the human race.
(d) It can mystify the creator of the universe.

4. Who arrives at the scene of Dwayne's beating as an emergency doctor?
(a) Cyprian.
(b) Harry.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Rabo.

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

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

7. What is the bad novel the driver tells Kilgore about?
(a) An art movement that focuses on the mundane.
(b) A roulette that determines good art.
(c) An artist that imagines painting, but does not paint.
(d) An artist that cuts off his ear and loses his artistic talent.

8. 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) Liquidate their stocks and move to Maui.
(c) Convince Dwayne to make Harry the manager.
(d) Divorce and go their separate ways.

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

10. 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 write a story about his life.
(b) To help him with his problems.
(c) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.
(d) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?
(a) Turns over the tables.
(b) Assaults other patrons.
(c) Kills the desk clerk.
(d) Smashes plates against the walls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwayne think about himself after reading Kilgore's book?

2. What does Kilgore decide after the driver tells him about the bad novel he has read?

3. What is one of Dwayne's talents that allows him to understand the message Kilgore gives him?

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

5. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?

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