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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. Where does Kilgore walk to after leaving the car and wading through the water?

2. What does Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?

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

4. What is Wayne instructed to do once he comes inside the hotel and eats a steak?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dwayne do when he fails to punch Wayne outside of the hotel?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the parallel between Dwayne's irrelevant phrases and the narrative?

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

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

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

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

Throughout the novel, numerous coincidences are mentioned linking characters, places and events. Describe several of these coincidences and argue whether they are significant to the narrative, or trivial. How do they affect the narrative? How do they affect characters? Do they not affect anything at all? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Towards the end of the novel, Rabo Karabekian, a minimalist artist, makes an appearance and his speech in the hotel lounge is noted by The Narrator as the spiritual climax of the book. What is Rabo's speech about and how is it the spiritual climax? Is it possible that Rabo's art could be a metaphor for The Narrator's novel? Explore this question through Rabo's speech and use specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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