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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. Who arrives at the scene of Dwayne's beating as an emergency doctor?
(a) Rabo.
(b) Cyprian.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) Harry.

2. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of when he meets him face to face?
(a) That he will die soon.
(b) That he is a fictional character.
(c) That he is not a good writer.
(d) That he is a freethinker.

3. What does The Narrator note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?
(a) He wishes he had not written Eliot into the novel.
(b) He is featured in another of The Narrator's novels.
(c) He stole the idea of Eliot's character from another novel.
(d) He is going to delete Eliot's character from the novel.

4. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?
(a) It is irrational and illogical.
(b) It can mystify the creator of the universe.
(c) It is slowly chipping away at the human race.
(d) It is exactly what the creator of the universe wants.

5. What did Kyle and Lyle use to get rid of the bubbles in the cave?
(a) Industrial soap.
(b) Water.
(c) A jack hammer.
(d) Their shotguns.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Bunny tell Dwayne when he was ten years-old?

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 the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Patty Keene flirt with Dwayne while she serves him hamburgers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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