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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Wayne do after watching the patrons through the peephole?
(a) Walks over to join in the conversation.
(b) Continues eating.
(c) Goes outside.
(d) Asks Rabo if he could play the piano.

9. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) New York City.
(c) A negative life.
(d) Poverty.

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

11. What is Harry wearing at the car dealership in Chapter 13?
(a) A Halloween costume.
(b) A bright yellow blazer.
(c) A Hawaiian costume.
(d) Plaid pants.

12. How does The Narrator celebrate his birthday at the end of the novel?
(a) By celebrating with the characters.
(b) By burning the novel.
(c) By freeing all of his characters.
(d) By writing a new novel.

13. What do Harry and his wife, Grace, decide to do after he arrives home from work?
(a) Convince Dwayne to make Harry the manager.
(b) Liquidate their stocks and move to Maui.
(c) Take money from Dwayne and run away.
(d) Divorce and go their separate ways.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kyle and Lyle use to get rid of the bubbles in the cave?

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

3. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about free will?

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

5. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?

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