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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 bad novel the driver tells Kilgore about?
(a) An artist that imagines painting, but does not paint.
(b) A roulette that determines good art.
(c) An artist that cuts off his ear and loses his artistic talent.
(d) An art movement that focuses on the mundane.

2. What is one of Dwayne's talents that allows him to understand the message Kilgore gives him?
(a) Acute hearing.
(b) Speed reading.
(c) Giving speeches.
(d) Logical reasoning.

3. Who is wearing mirrored sunglasses in the hotel lounge?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) Dwayne.
(c) Kilgore.
(d) Francine.

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

5. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about free will?
(a) Only the creator possesses it.
(b) It is in everyone.
(c) It is not what we think it is.
(d) Only the reader has it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bunny Hoover?

2. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?

3. In chapter 21, who surrounds Rabo at the piano in the hotel lounge?

4. What can the reader do, according to the literature Kilgore is reading?

5. Who does Dwayne find in the parking lot when he leaves the hotel after his rampage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does The Narrator say about himself, Kilgore and Dwayne once they are all in the hotel lounge?

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