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

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

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

4. What can the reader do, according to the literature Kilgore is reading?

5. What did Rabo tell the people surrounding him at the piano to make them adore him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is one of the events in the novel that The Narrator believes he could have done differently?

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

4. What causes Kilgore to get out of the car and start walking toward Midland City and his fateful meeting with Dwayne?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the significance of Kilgore's accepting to speak at the arts festival, despite a desire to remain anonymous in his writing? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

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