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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 is the bad novel the driver tells Kilgore about?

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

3. What do Harry and his wife, Grace, decide to do after he arrives home from work?

4. What is Harry wearing at the car dealership in Chapter 13?

5. How does The Narrator celebrate his birthday at the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 20, what does the desk clerk at the hotel say to Kilgore about his work?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How could the Sacred Miracle Cave that Kyle and Lyle Hoover run be a metaphor for Breakfast of Champions? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

How is Wayne looking at the people in the hotel lounge through the kitchen's peephole in Chapter 19 similar to exactly what the reader is doing with Breakfast of Champions? What are the events Wayne is watching? What is their significance? Insignificance? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

After Dwayne's fateful reading of Kilgore's Now It Can Be Told, he accosts numerous people in a violent rampage. Relate what is known about the plot of Kilgore's novel and how it affects Dwayne who is in a critical mental state. Assess the plot of Kilgore's novel and how Dwayne interprets it in order to explain why Dwayne embarks on his rampage after reading it.

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