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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 recognizes Kilgore when he arrives at his destination in Midland City?
(a) The desk clerk.
(b) Beatrice.
(c) Dwayne.
(d) The bellhop.

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

3. 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.

4. Who arrives at the scene of Dwayne's beating as an emergency doctor?
(a) Harry.
(b) Cyprian.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Rabo.

5. What happens to Dwayne as he remains in the hotel lounge and more central characters arrive?
(a) He starts to cry.
(b) He picks a fight with Kilgore.
(c) He sinks deeper into confusion.
(d) He has an outburst.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kilgore wade through at the beginning of Chapter 20?

2. What did Bunny tell Dwayne when he was ten years-old?

3. What does The Narrator note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?

4. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?

5. What is Kilgore devastated about after being recognized at the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Now It Can Be Told, what is the main difference between the creator of the universe and the reader?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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