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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 sits in the hotel lounge with Dwayne and Bunny, after Dwayne arrives and has a martini?
2. Where is Eliot Rosewater at the beginning of Chapter 24?
3. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?
4. Who arrives at the scene of Dwayne's beating as an emergency doctor?
5. What does The Narrator note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dwayne do when he fails to punch Wayne outside of the hotel?
2. Why does Bunny not fight back when his father, Dwayne, assaults him in the hotel lounge?
3. What does The Narrator state is the spiritual climax of the novel?
4. What is the book, Now It Can Be Told, that Kilgore reads in the car about?
5. Why is Harry devastated at the beginning of Chapter 13?
6. What is the book the driver describes having read that Kilgore realizes is one of his own novels about?
7. Why does Patty Keene flirt with Dwayne while she serves him hamburgers?
8. What do Kilgore and the driver drive by in West Virginia and who was it founded by?
9. What is the parallel between Dwayne's irrelevant phrases and the narrative?
10. What is the connection between Dwayne's house and the stream of pollution that Kilgore wades through?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The two main protagonists of Breakfast of Champions, Kilgore Trout and Dwayne Hoover, have had tumultuous relationships throughout their lives beginning in childhood and moving on into their adulthood. Assess the two characters, based on their relationships with others, and conclude whether they are, in fact, similar to one another or foils.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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