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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 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) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.
(c) To help him with his problems.
(d) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.

2. What happens to Dwayne once the police arrive at the scene of the beating?
(a) He is knocked unconscious.
(b) He is beaten by the police.
(c) He is injected with a serum.
(d) He is strapped down.

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

4. What do the driver and Kilgore talk about as they travel through the mining town?
(a) Local practice of snake handling.
(b) The advancements their generation has made.
(c) How competitive the coal mining industry is.
(d) The destruction the coal mines are causing.

5. What has Kilgore often imagined that he remembers when he sees The Narrator in the lounge?
(a) That he is the same person as The Narrator.
(b) That whatever Kilgore writes comes true.
(c) That The Narrator is a character from one of Kilgore's stories.
(d) That he is a character in someone's novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?

2. What is the book that Kilgore skims through during the drive about?

3. What does The Narrator say about his own mother and Bunny's mother, Celia?

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

5. Who is the first victim of Dwayne's psychotic, violent rampage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do Kilgore and the driver drive by in West Virginia and who was it founded by?

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

6. What does The Narrator say about himself, Kilgore and Dwayne once they are all in the hotel lounge?

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

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

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

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

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