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

2. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?
(a) New York City.
(b) Poverty.
(c) A negative life.
(d) Existentialism.

3. What does The Narrator claim to be unaware of in the Epilogue?
(a) What has happened to Kilgore.
(b) Dwayne's whereabouts.
(c) A vicious dog stalking him.
(d) The arts festival's cancellation.

4. What does Kilgore discover as the driver describes the bad novel?
(a) It is one of his novels.
(b) It is his favorite novel.
(c) He knows the author who wrote it.
(d) He has read the novel as well.

5. What does Francine do with her day after Dwayne leaves the motel?
(a) Leaves work early.
(b) Catches up on work.
(c) Quits her job.
(d) Looks for Dwayne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?

2. Where does Kilgore see the coal mining landscape?

3. After reading Kilgore's book, what does Dwayne believe about everyone else?

4. What does Bunny do for a living?

5. What do Kyle and Lyle say is happening at the Sacred Miracle Cave?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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