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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. When Dwayne has difficulty hitting the person he finds in the hotel parking lot after his rampage, what does he do instead?
(a) Asks the person for a ride home.
(b) Lectures on race relations and slavery.
(c) Throws pieces of trash at the person.
(d) Runs back inside of the hotel.

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

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

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

5. What is Harry wearing at the car dealership in Chapter 13?
(a) A bright yellow blazer.
(b) Plaid pants.
(c) A Hawaiian costume.
(d) A Halloween costume.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Harry infer about Dwayne's ignoring him at the car dealership?

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

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

5. Where is Eliot Rosewater at the beginning of Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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