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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. Who does Dwayne beat when he reaches the car dealership?
(a) Kilgore.
(b) Vernon.
(c) Francine.
(d) Harry.

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

3. Where does Kilgore walk to after leaving the car and wading through the water?
(a) The hotel lounge.
(b) Home.
(c) The burger restaurant.
(d) The arts festival.

4. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?
(a) "Happy hour!"
(b) "Breakfast of champions!"
(c) "Goodbye blue Monday!"
(d) "Now it can be told!"

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Kilgore decide after the driver tells him about the bad novel he has read?

4. What do the driver and Kilgore talk about as they travel through the mining town?

5. What happens to Dwayne as he remains in the hotel lounge and more central characters arrive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Grace, Harry's wife, tell Harry he should do regarding his job at Dwayne's dealership?

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

6. Why did Dwayne send his son, Bunny, to a military school?

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

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

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

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

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