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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 person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?
2. Who tries to intervene in Dwayne's beating and also gets a finger bitten off?
3. What is Wayne instructed to do once he comes inside the hotel and eats a steak?
4. What birthday does The Narrator celebrate at the end of the novel?
5. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is one of the events in the novel that The Narrator believes he could have done differently?
2. Why did Dwayne send his son, Bunny, to a military school?
3. What does Dwayne do when he fails to punch Wayne outside of the hotel?
4. How are Wayne and the reader similar to one another in Chapter 19?
5. What is it that The Narrator claims has been stalking him throughout the book?
6. Why does The Narrator place himself in the hotel lounge scene?
7. Why does Bunny not fight back when his father, Dwayne, assaults him in the hotel lounge?
8. What does The Narrator state is the spiritual climax of the novel?
9. What is the book the driver describes having read that Kilgore realizes is one of his own novels about?
10. What does Dwayne do to Francine on his violent rampage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is The Narrator in Breakfast of Champions? The unnamed narrator claims to be a real person, but defies conventional literature and even physics at numerous points throughout the plot. What is his role within the novel? Using specific examples from the text, write a thesis explaining who you think The Narrator is within the novel.
Essay Topic 2
George (Bunny) Hoover and Leo Trout are the sons of the novel's two main protagonists, but minor characters themselves. Using what information is provided on these two sons, write an explanation of how these characters further develop the characters of Dwayne and Kilgore. Do the sons foil one another? Are they alike? How do their characters influence Kilgore and Dwayne? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
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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