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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does The Narrator say about his own mother and Bunny's mother, Celia?
(a) They both left their families.
(b) They were close friends.
(c) They were both mentally unstable.
(d) They did not understand their sons.

2. What does Kilgore discover as the driver describes the bad novel?
(a) He knows the author who wrote it.
(b) He has read the novel as well.
(c) It is his favorite novel.
(d) It is one of his novels.

3. What happens to Dwayne once the police arrive at the scene of the beating?
(a) He is knocked unconscious.
(b) He is strapped down.
(c) He is injected with a serum.
(d) He is beaten by the police.

4. In the epilogue, what is Kilgore looking for as he wanders around the local hospital?
(a) Bunny.
(b) The operating room.
(c) The billing office.
(d) Francine.

5. Who does Kilgore realize is watching him in the hotel lounge?
(a) Bunny.
(b) The Narrator.
(c) Dwayne.
(d) Wayne.

6. Who founded the coal mining in the place Kilgore drives through?
(a) Dwayne's grandfather.
(b) Eliot's ancestors.
(c) Fred Barry's family.
(d) Kilgore's great uncle.

7. What does Dwayne do in the lobby after assaulting Bunny and before going outside?
(a) Kills the desk clerk.
(b) Turns over the tables.
(c) Smashes plates against the walls.
(d) Assaults other patrons.

8. What did Kyle and Lyle use to get rid of the bubbles in the cave?
(a) Water.
(b) Their shotguns.
(c) A jack hammer.
(d) Industrial soap.

9. What is the bad novel the driver tells Kilgore about?
(a) An artist that cuts off his ear and loses his artistic talent.
(b) A roulette that determines good art.
(c) An art movement that focuses on the mundane.
(d) An artist that imagines painting, but does not paint.

10. What do the driver and Kilgore talk about as they travel through the mining town?
(a) How competitive the coal mining industry is.
(b) Local practice of snake handling.
(c) The advancements their generation has made.
(d) The destruction the coal mines are causing.

11. Who invites Wayne into the hotel after noticing that he is loitering?
(a) The Narrator.
(b) The cook.
(c) The receptionist.
(d) Dwayne.

12. What does Wayne do after watching the patrons through the peephole?
(a) Continues eating.
(b) Asks Rabo if he could play the piano.
(c) Goes outside.
(d) Walks over to join in the conversation.

13. What did Bunny tell Dwayne when he was ten years-old?
(a) He wanted to be a woman.
(b) He thought he was adopted.
(c) He wanted to be like his dad.
(d) He hated the piano.

14. What is one of Dwayne's talents that allows him to understand the message Kilgore gives him?
(a) Acute hearing.
(b) Giving speeches.
(c) Logical reasoning.
(d) Speed reading.

15. Who does Dwayne beat when he reaches the car dealership?
(a) Vernon.
(b) Harry.
(c) Francine.
(d) Kilgore.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the 17-year-old waitress that serves Dwayne his hamburger?

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

4. How did Dwayne respond to what Bunny said at ten years-old?

5. What does Francine do with her day after Dwayne leaves the motel?

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