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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?
(a) Existentialism.
(b) New York City.
(c) A negative life.
(d) Poverty.

2. What has Kilgore often imagined that he remembers when he sees The Narrator in the lounge?
(a) That whatever Kilgore writes comes true.
(b) That he is a character in someone's novel.
(c) That The Narrator is a character from one of Kilgore's stories.
(d) That he is the same person as The Narrator.

3. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?
(a) Love of her life.
(b) A deadbeat.
(c) A solution to her financial problems.
(d) Unattractive and unfaithful.

4. After reading Kilgore's book, what does Dwayne believe about everyone else?
(a) They are pre-programmed.
(b) They are part of the higher power.
(c) They are freethinkers as well.
(d) They need to know about the book.

5. What does Kilgore do when he is stuck in traffic on the way to Midland City?
(a) Tells the driver to make a u-turn.
(b) Gets out and walks.
(c) Honks the horn.
(d) Calls home to check his messages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kilgore see that caused the traffic jam he was stuck in?

2. In chapter 21, who surrounds Rabo at the piano in the hotel lounge?

3. What direction is Kilgore traveling in at the beginning of Chapter 16?

4. What does Dwayne think about himself after reading Kilgore's book?

5. Who sits in the hotel lounge with Dwayne and Bunny, after Dwayne arrives and has a martini?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the book, Now It Can Be Told, that Kilgore reads in the car about?

3. Why is Harry devastated at the beginning of Chapter 13?

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

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

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

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

8. What does The Narrator make note of in Chapter 17 about his and Bunny's mothers?

9. Why does The Narrator place himself in the hotel lounge scene?

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

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