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

2. What happens to Bunny while he is playing piano?
(a) He becomes giddy.
(b) He thinks about other songs to play.
(c) He goes into a trance.
(d) He gets into a good mood.

3. What does The Narrator decide to do about the novel at the beginning of Chapter 22?
(a) Speed up the pace.
(b) Get rid of a character.
(c) Start from the beginning.
(d) Create a new character.

4. What does The Narrator state is the surprising spiritual climax of the novel?
(a) Rabo's speech defending his painting.
(b) What Bonnie says when she serves a martini.
(c) The scene The Narrator has created.
(d) Beatrice's comment about Midland City not having notable events.

5. What is Harry wearing at the car dealership in Chapter 13?
(a) A bright yellow blazer.
(b) A Hawaiian costume.
(c) A Halloween costume.
(d) Plaid pants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?

2. What do Kyle and Lyle say is happening at the Sacred Miracle Cave?

3. What do Harry and his wife, Grace, decide to do after he arrives home from work?

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

5. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the book, Now It Can Be Told, that Kilgore reads in the car about?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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