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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 is the book that Kilgore skims through during the drive about?
(a) The meaning of life from different religious viewpoints.
(b) How people in the future continually try to regain the past.
(c) A letter from the creator of the universe to the reader.
(d) What is going to happen ten years from now.

2. How did Dwayne respond to what Bunny said at ten years-old?
(a) He grounded him.
(b) He sent him to live with relatives.
(c) He sent him to military school.
(d) He sent him to a psychiatrist.

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

4. 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) Asks the person for a ride home.
(c) Lectures on race relations and slavery.
(d) Throws pieces of trash at the person.

5. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?
(a) A solution to her financial problems.
(b) Love of her life.
(c) A deadbeat.
(d) Unattractive and unfaithful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dwayne ask Kilgore when he finally walks over to his table after The Narrator speeds up the novel's pace?

2. What does The Narrator claim to be unaware of in the Epilogue?

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

4. What does Dwayne do when he gets back to the car dealership?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Bunny not fight back when his father, Dwayne, assaults him in the hotel lounge?

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

10. Why is Harry devastated at the beginning of Chapter 13?

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