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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does The Narrator note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?
(a) He is featured in another of The Narrator's novels.
(b) He stole the idea of Eliot's character from another novel.
(c) He is going to delete Eliot's character from the novel.
(d) He wishes he had not written Eliot into the novel.

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

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

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

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

9. Who invites Wayne into the hotel after noticing that he is loitering?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) The cook.
(c) Dwayne.
(d) The receptionist.

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

11. Where is Eliot Rosewater at the beginning of Chapter 24?
(a) Landing at the local airport.
(b) Driving away from Midland City.
(c) Stuck in a traffic jam.
(d) On a train heading toward Midland City.

12. Who does Dwayne find in the parking lot when he leaves the hotel after his rampage?
(a) Kilgore.
(b) Wayne.
(c) The cook.
(d) The Narrator.

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

14. Who is the 17-year-old waitress that serves Dwayne his hamburger?
(a) Francine Pefko.
(b) Patty Keene.
(c) His niece.
(d) Phoebe Hurty.

15. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?
(a) A solution to her financial problems.
(b) A deadbeat.
(c) Unattractive and unfaithful.
(d) Love of her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kilgore do when he leaves the hospital?

2. What is Kilgore reading as he travels in Chapter 16?

3. What can the reader do, according to the literature Kilgore is reading?

4. What is the book that Kilgore skims through during the drive about?

5. Who arrives at the scene of Dwayne's beating as an emergency doctor?

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