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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 The Narrator state is the surprising spiritual climax of the novel?
(a) Rabo's speech defending his painting.
(b) The scene The Narrator has created.
(c) Beatrice's comment about Midland City not having notable events.
(d) What Bonnie says when she serves a martini.

2. What does Dwayne ask Kilgore when he finally walks over to his table after The Narrator speeds up the novel's pace?
(a) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.
(b) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.
(c) To help him write a story about his life.
(d) To help him with his problems.

3. Who sits in the hotel lounge with Dwayne and Bunny, after Dwayne arrives and has a martini?
(a) Eliot.
(b) Kilgore.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Francine.

4. Who founded the coal mining in the place Kilgore drives through?
(a) Eliot's ancestors.
(b) Dwayne's grandfather.
(c) Fred Barry's family.
(d) Kilgore's great uncle.

5. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) Harry.
(c) Vernon.
(d) Kilgore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What birthday does The Narrator celebrate at the end of the novel?

2. What does Wayne do after watching the patrons through the peephole?

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

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

5. What does Kilgore wade through at the beginning of Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 20, what does the desk clerk at the hotel say to Kilgore about his work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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