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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 does Dwayne take off of Kilgore's table?
(a) Kilgore's drink.
(b) One of Kilgore's manuscripts.
(c) Kilgore's plate of food.
(d) The book, Now It Can Be Told.
2. What is Wayne instructed to do once he comes inside the hotel and eats a steak?
(a) To fill out a server application.
(b) To look through a peephole.
(c) To leave once he is done eating.
(d) To help wash the dishes.
3. What does Kilgore do when he leaves the hospital?
(a) Looks for the arts festival.
(b) Tries to contact Eliot.
(c) Fills out a report for the police.
(d) Tries to find Dwayne.
4. What drove everyone out of the Sacred Miracle Cave?
(a) The bats that fly around the cave.
(b) The stink of the bubbles bursting.
(c) The animal droppings.
(d) The acidic waste.
5. What does Kilgore notice about what he is wading through?
(a) It is coming from his house.
(b) It is the result of the Midland City power plant.
(c) It coming from an all natural spring.
(d) It is also flowing to the Sacred Miracle Cave.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who are Kyle and Lyle?
2. What happens to Dwayne as he remains in the hotel lounge and more central characters arrive?
3. Where does Kilgore see the coal mining landscape?
4. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?
5. What does Francine do with her day after Dwayne leaves the motel?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does The Narrator state is the spiritual climax of the novel?
2. In Chapter 20, what does the desk clerk at the hotel say to Kilgore about his work?
3. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?
4. What is the parallel between Dwayne's irrelevant phrases and the narrative?
5. What does The Narrator say about himself, Kilgore and Dwayne once they are all in the hotel lounge?
6. What do Kilgore and the driver drive by in West Virginia and who was it founded by?
7. What is the book the driver describes having read that Kilgore realizes is one of his own novels about?
8. What is the connection between Dwayne's house and the stream of pollution that Kilgore wades through?
9. What is it that The Narrator claims has been stalking him throughout the book?
10. Why does the sight of The Narrator in the hotel Lobby make Kilgore nervous?
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