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

2. What does Dwayne ask Kilgore when he finally walks over to his table after The Narrator speeds up the novel's pace?
(a) To help him write a story about his life.
(b) To help him with his problems.
(c) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.
(d) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Kilgore realize is watching him in the hotel lounge?

2. Who is wearing mirrored sunglasses in the hotel lounge?

3. What does Wayne do after watching the patrons through the peephole?

4. Where does Kilgore see the coal mining landscape?

5. What does Bunny do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does The Narrator place himself in the hotel lounge scene?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Patty Keene flirt with Dwayne while she serves him hamburgers?

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

8. What is the book the driver describes having read that Kilgore realizes is one of his own novels about?

9. What is the conflict that Dwayne might have with his twin brothers, Lyle and Kyle?

10. What is it that The Narrator claims has been stalking him throughout the book?

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