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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 Francine do with her day after Dwayne leaves the motel?
(a) Catches up on work.
(b) Leaves work early.
(c) Quits her job.
(d) Looks for Dwayne.

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

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

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

5. What drove everyone out of the Sacred Miracle Cave?
(a) The stink of the bubbles bursting.
(b) The bats that fly around the cave.
(c) The animal droppings.
(d) The acidic waste.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?

2. Who recognizes Kilgore when he arrives at his destination in Midland City?

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

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

5. Who is the 17-year-old waitress that serves Dwayne his hamburger?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of at the end of the novel?

2. What does Dwayne do to Francine on his violent rampage?

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

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

5. In Now It Can Be Told, what is the main difference between the creator of the universe and the reader?

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

7. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?

8. What does The Narrator make note of in Chapter 17 about his and Bunny's mothers?

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

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

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