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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Kilgore devastated about after being recognized at the hotel?
(a) He is recognized for the wrong thing.
(b) He is not anonymous.
(c) He does not want to be a writer anymore.
(d) No one else has recognized him.

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

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

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

5. Who does Kilgore realize is watching him in the hotel lounge?
(a) Dwayne.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) Wayne.
(d) Bunny.

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

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

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

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

10. What does The Narrator state is the surprising spiritual climax of the novel?
(a) Rabo's speech defending his painting.
(b) What Bonnie says when she serves a martini.
(c) Beatrice's comment about Midland City not having notable events.
(d) The scene The Narrator has created.

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

12. What does Dwayne ask Kilgore when he finally walks over to his table after The Narrator speeds up the novel's pace?
(a) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.
(b) To help him with his problems.
(c) To help him write a story about his life.
(d) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.

13. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?
(a) "Breakfast of champions!"
(b) "Now it can be told!"
(c) "Goodbye blue Monday!"
(d) "Happy hour!"

14. Who is wearing mirrored sunglasses in the hotel lounge?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) Dwayne.
(c) Kilgore.
(d) Francine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first victim of Dwayne's psychotic, violent rampage?

2. What does Bunny do for a living?

3. Who sits in the hotel lounge with Dwayne and Bunny, after Dwayne arrives and has a martini?

4. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?

5. What does The Narrator claim to be unaware of in the Epilogue?

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