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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What birthday does The Narrator celebrate at the end of the novel?
(a) His 40th.
(b) His 50th.
(c) His 30th.
(d) His 60th.

3. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?
(a) Harry.
(b) Vernon.
(c) Kilgore.
(d) The Narrator.

4. 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) No one else has recognized him.
(d) He does not want to be a writer anymore.

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

6. What does Dwayne do when he gets back to the car dealership?
(a) He tries to find a cure for his disorder.
(b) He calls the waitress.
(c) He looks at pornography.
(d) He talks to Harry.

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

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

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

10. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about free will?
(a) Only the reader has it.
(b) It is in everyone.
(c) It is not what we think it is.
(d) Only the creator possesses it.

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

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

13. What do Kyle and Lyle say is happening at the Sacred Miracle Cave?
(a) It is losing its tourist appeal and making less money.
(b) Kids have been spray painting the cave walls.
(c) It is filling up with industrial waste.
(d) Too many animals are nesting inside.

14. Where does Kilgore walk to after leaving the car and wading through the water?
(a) The burger restaurant.
(b) The arts festival.
(c) The hotel lounge.
(d) Home.

15. 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) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.
(d) To help him write a story about his life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What direction is Kilgore traveling in at the beginning of Chapter 16?

2. What does Bunny do for a living?

3. Who does Dwayne beat when he reaches the car dealership?

4. What does Kilgore wade through at the beginning of Chapter 20?

5. What does The Narrator state is the surprising spiritual climax of the novel?

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