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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. When Dwayne has difficulty hitting the person he finds in the hotel parking lot after his rampage, what does he do instead?
(a) Runs back inside of the hotel.
(b) Lectures on race relations and slavery.
(c) Asks the person for a ride home.
(d) Throws pieces of trash at the person.

2. What does Kilgore do when he is stuck in traffic on the way to Midland City?
(a) Honks the horn.
(b) Tells the driver to make a u-turn.
(c) Calls home to check his messages.
(d) Gets out and walks.

3. What does Kilgore notice about what he is wading through?
(a) It is also flowing to the Sacred Miracle Cave.
(b) It is the result of the Midland City power plant.
(c) It coming from an all natural spring.
(d) It is coming from his house.

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

5. What does Wayne do after watching the patrons through the peephole?
(a) Continues eating.
(b) Goes outside.
(c) Walks over to join in the conversation.
(d) Asks Rabo if he could play the piano.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Dwayne beat when he reaches the car dealership?

2. Who founded the coal mining in the place Kilgore drives through?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What causes Kilgore to get out of the car and start walking toward Midland City and his fateful meeting with Dwayne?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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