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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kilgore muse about after arriving in the city in Chapter 12?
(a) If he is meant to be where he is that day for a reason.
(b) How he wonders if he lives in an alternate reality.
(c) How the world is how it should be.
(d) Where he should send his latest story.

2. What is Kilgore asked to be in the letter he receives?
(a) A model.
(b) Keynote speaker.
(c) A substitute teacher.
(d) An usher.

3. Why does Kilgore decide to go to the event in Midland City that he is invited to?
(a) To represent success in adulthood.
(b) To represent his family name.
(c) To represent Midland City.
(d) To represent the dark side of the arts.

4. What does Dwayne believe about himself after reading Kilgore's novel?
(a) He is an omniscent and all powerful being.
(b) He is immortal and impervious to death.
(c) He is God's chosen one.
(d) He is the only individual with free will.

5. What does The Narrator foreshadow about Dwayne and Kilgore?
(a) Dwayne will kill Kilgore.
(b) Dwayne will read Kilgore's book.
(c) Dwayne and Kilgore will become enemies.
(d) Dwayne and Kilgore will become friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dwayne's relationship status?

2. What did the element that Celia ingested do to her?

3. Who owns part of the Holiday Inn?

4. What genre does Kilgore prefer to write?

5. What does Kilgore attempt to do after reading what was written on the bathroom wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Wayne Hoobler and what does he want at Dwayne's car dealership?

2. What is Kilgore's novel, Plague On Wheels, about?

3. Why is Harry LeSabre upset by Dwayne's comment about his outfit looking like that of a mortician?

4. After pondering the question on the bathroom wall, what is Kilgore lead to think about?

5. What does the scene between Dwayne and his pet dog, Sparky, infer about Dwayne's character?

6. What does Dwayne do in Chapter 4 that alludes to his increasing mental instability?

7. In Chapter 10, why does Kilgore have to sit on the floor of the truck he rides in?

8. Why does Kilgore think Americans are greedy?

9. What significance did Kilgore's comment in the police station end up having on the residents of NY?

10. Why does Dwayne think he is hallucinating Wayne when he first meets him?

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