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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. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of when he meets him face to face?

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

3. What does Bunny do for a living?

4. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?

5. What direction is Kilgore traveling in at the beginning of Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are amateurish illustrations at the beginning of the novel. Kilgore has written numerous works of fiction, but they are published as filler material in pornographic magazines. What is parallel between the accompanying illustrations to Breakfast of Champions' text and the images Kilgore's stories accompany in the pornographic magazines. Is there a parallel, or is it as insignificant as much of the details involved in the novel? Provide specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe Breakfast of Champions in literary terms. How does is transcend conventional drama in genre, plot construction, character development, and even narration? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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