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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 note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?

2. Who is playing music while Dwayne is in the hotel at the beginning of Chapter 18?

3. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?

4. What does The Narrator say about his own mother and Bunny's mother, Celia?

5. What does Kilgore discover as the driver describes the bad novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In the Prologue, The Narrator describes his childhood, including his relationship with Phoebe Hurty whose atypical views largely influenced The Narrator's views. Based on the information The Narrator provides and what the reader learns about Kilgore throughout the novel, is it possible that Kilgore is a self representation of The Narrator? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

The overall genre of Breakfast of Champions is fiction; however the Prologue and Epilogue are written to be viewed as nonfiction with general facts about the world. Write a well crafted argument for how the Prologue and Epilogue affect the rest of the narrative.

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