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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 has Rabo just sold to Midland City?
(a) A new space for an exhibition.
(b) His portfolio of drawings.
(c) An over-priced painting.
(d) His art gallery.

2. What does Kilgore discover as the driver describes the bad novel?
(a) It is one of his novels.
(b) He has read the novel as well.
(c) It is his favorite novel.
(d) He knows the author who wrote it.

3. What does Bunny do for a living?
(a) Police officer.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Pianist.
(d) Construction.

4. Who is Beatrice Keedlser?
(a) A museum curator.
(b) A novelist.
(c) A painter.
(d) A writer of children's books.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dwayne think about himself after reading Kilgore's book?

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

4. What disorder does Dwayne develop as he teeters on the edge of sanity?

5. Who invites Wayne into the hotel after noticing that he is loitering?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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