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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Rabo just sold to Midland City?
(a) His portfolio of drawings.
(b) An over-priced painting.
(c) A new space for an exhibition.
(d) His art gallery.

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

3. Who is the 17-year-old waitress that serves Dwayne his hamburger?
(a) His niece.
(b) Phoebe Hurty.
(c) Francine Pefko.
(d) Patty Keene.

4. What birthday does The Narrator celebrate at the end of the novel?
(a) His 60th.
(b) His 30th.
(c) His 40th.
(d) His 50th.

5. Where does Kilgore walk to after leaving the car and wading through the water?
(a) The burger restaurant.
(b) The arts festival.
(c) Home.
(d) The hotel lounge.

6. What does Dwayne take off of Kilgore's table?
(a) The book, Now It Can Be Told.
(b) Kilgore's plate of food.
(c) One of Kilgore's manuscripts.
(d) Kilgore's drink.

7. What does Dwayne ask Kilgore when he finally walks over to his table after The Narrator speeds up the novel's pace?
(a) To help him write a story about his life.
(b) That Kilgore deliver a message to him.
(c) That Kilgore leave the lounge right away.
(d) To help him with his problems.

8. What does Bonnie MacMahon, a waitress, say whenever she serves a patron a martini?
(a) "Now it can be told!"
(b) "Goodbye blue Monday!"
(c) "Happy hour!"
(d) "Breakfast of champions!"

9. Who is Bunny Hoover?
(a) Dwayne's cousin.
(b) Dwayne's son.
(c) Dwayne's biological brother.
(d) Dwayne's mother.

10. What is Kilgore devastated about after being recognized at the hotel?
(a) He does not want to be a writer anymore.
(b) He is recognized for the wrong thing.
(c) He is not anonymous.
(d) No one else has recognized him.

11. What is Kilgore reading as he travels in Chapter 16?
(a) This Is The Time.
(b) Now It Can Be Told.
(c) Midland City Magazine.
(d) A pornographic magazine.

12. What does Kilgore decide after the driver tells him about the bad novel he has read?
(a) To remain anonymous.
(b) To change his name.
(c) To make more copies of the book to sell.
(d) To tell the man he wrote the book.

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

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

15. What does The Narrator claim to be unaware of in the Epilogue?
(a) A vicious dog stalking him.
(b) What has happened to Kilgore.
(c) The arts festival's cancellation.
(d) Dwayne's whereabouts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Dwayne as he remains in the hotel lounge and more central characters arrive?

2. What does The Narrator note about Eliot after he has arrived in Midland City?

3. Who is the first victim of Dwayne's psychotic, violent rampage?

4. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about the reader's behavior?

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

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