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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 Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?
(a) Turns over the tables.
(b) Kills the desk clerk.
(c) Smashes plates against the walls.
(d) Assaults other patrons.

2. Where do Francine and Dwayne meet after he calls her?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A motel.
(c) Dwayne's house.
(d) The Holiday Inn.

3. What has Rabo just sold to Midland City?
(a) His art gallery.
(b) His portfolio of drawings.
(c) A new space for an exhibition.
(d) An over-priced painting.

4. What does Bunny do for a living?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Construction.
(c) Pianist.
(d) Police officer.

5. What do Kyle and Lyle say is happening at the Sacred Miracle Cave?
(a) It is losing its tourist appeal and making less money.
(b) It is filling up with industrial waste.
(c) Kids have been spray painting the cave walls.
(d) Too many animals are nesting inside.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the 17-year-old waitress that serves Dwayne his hamburger?

2. Who invites Wayne into the hotel after noticing that he is loitering?

3. What does Dwayne think about himself after reading Kilgore's book?

4. Where does Kilgore see the coal mining landscape?

5. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Bunny not fight back when his father, Dwayne, assaults him in the hotel lounge?

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

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

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

9. What does The Narrator make note of in Chapter 17 about his and Bunny's mothers?

10. In Now It Can Be Told, what is the main difference between the creator of the universe and the reader?

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