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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 Kilgore notice about what he is wading through?

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

3. What did Kyle and Lyle use to get rid of the bubbles in the cave?

4. What does Dwayne take off of Kilgore's table?

5. Who is Beatrice Keedlser?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?

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

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

8. What does The Narrator say about himself, Kilgore and Dwayne once they are all in the hotel lounge?

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

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

Rabo, Beatrice and Patty are introduced as characters in the hotel lounge scene and their conversation becomes the focus of Chapter 19. Up until this chapter, The Narrator's claim that no one character is more important than any other character has been building. Support this claim - that all characters in any work are of equal importance - with Rabo, Beatrice, Patty and their conversation.

Essay Topic 2

After seeing a message scrawled on the wall of the bathroom in the pornography theatre, Kilgore ponders the question at length. Discuss this scene with a clear thesis explaining why Kilgore devotes such attention to the question and how it affects him.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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