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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 disorder does Dwayne develop as he teeters on the edge of sanity?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Amnesia.
(c) Echolalia.
(d) Tourette's.

2. 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 leave the lounge right away.
(d) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.

3. Who is Bunny Hoover?
(a) Dwayne's son.
(b) Dwayne's mother.
(c) Dwayne's cousin.
(d) Dwayne's biological brother.

4. What is Kilgore devastated about after being recognized at the hotel?
(a) He does not want to be a writer anymore.
(b) No one else has recognized him.
(c) He is recognized for the wrong thing.
(d) He is not anonymous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kilgore decide after the driver tells him about the bad novel he has read?

2. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?

3. What did Kyle and Lyle use to get rid of the bubbles in the cave?

4. What is Kilgore reading as he travels in Chapter 16?

5. Who is the first victim of Dwayne's psychotic, violent rampage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the parallel between Dwayne's irrelevant phrases and the narrative?

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

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