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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Dwayne's secretary?
2. What does Kilgore refer to mirrors as?
3. Who is Dwayne's number one salesman?
4. What did Dwayne's biological parents do to him when he was a child?
5. What happens to Kilgore after he leaves the bathroom in Chapter 7?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Celia, Dwayne's wife, kill herself?
2. What is Kilgore's counter argument to the driver's stance on the need for conservation of natural resources?
3. What does the scene between Dwayne and his pet dog, Sparky, infer about Dwayne's character?
4. How are the relationships between the pets and Kilgore and Dwayne different?
5. What is the reason for The Narrator saying his name is Philboyd Studge?
6. What happens to Kilgore after he notices that a car is following him as he walks down 42nd Street?
7. in Chapter 12, what does the driver recognize as a difference between himself and Kilgore?
8. What significance did Kilgore's comment in the police station end up having on the residents of NY?
9. Why does Dwayne think he is hallucinating Wayne when he first meets him?
10. Why is Kilgore reluctant at first to accept the invitation to speak at the arts festival?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 22, The Narrator decides to speed up the pace of the narrative. What does he do in order to accomplish this? Does it in any way contradict his previous claim of all characters and details being of equal importance? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Does Breakfast of Champions have a conclusion? Is it an unfulfilled conclusion? Is there no conclusion at all? Support you answer with specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
The overall genre of Breakfast of Champions is fiction; however the Prologue and Epilogue are written to be viewed as nonfiction with general facts about the world. Write a well crafted argument for how the Prologue and Epilogue affect the rest of the narrative.
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