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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. After The Narrator decides to do something new with the novel, how does he accomplish this objective?
(a) By adding more examinations.
(b) By changing the tense.
(c) By eliminating irrelevant details.
(d) By choosing a new genre.

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

3. After reading Kilgore's book, what does Dwayne believe about everyone else?
(a) They are pre-programmed.
(b) They are freethinkers as well.
(c) They are part of the higher power.
(d) They need to know about the book.

4. What error does The Narrator note about Kilgore that he should change, but will not because it would be too complicated?
(a) Celia's suicide.
(b) Bunny playing the piano.
(c) The trip and its timeline.
(d) Francine's character.

5. Who is the first victim of Dwayne's psychotic, violent rampage?
(a) Rabo.
(b) Kilgore.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Bunny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bunny do for a living?

2. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?

3. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?

4. What happens to Dwayne once the police arrive at the scene of the beating?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dwayne do when he fails to punch Wayne outside of the hotel?

2. In Chapter 20, what does the desk clerk at the hotel say to Kilgore about his work?

3. Why does the sight of The Narrator in the hotel Lobby make Kilgore nervous?

4. Why does Bunny not fight back when his father, Dwayne, assaults him in the hotel lounge?

5. When Kilgore and Dwayne finally meet as foretold in Chapter 1, what is the cause of their meeting?

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

7. Why is Harry devastated at the beginning of Chapter 13?

8. What is the connection between Dwayne's house and the stream of pollution that Kilgore wades through?

9. What is the parallel between Dwayne's irrelevant phrases and the narrative?

10. What is one of the events in the novel that The Narrator believes he could have done differently?

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