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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. Who does Dwayne find in the parking lot when he leaves the hotel after his rampage?
(a) Kilgore.
(b) Wayne.
(c) The Narrator.
(d) The cook.

2. What does the literature Kilgore is reading say about free will?
(a) Only the reader has it.
(b) It is not what we think it is.
(c) It is in everyone.
(d) Only the creator possesses it.

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

4. What happens to Dwayne as he remains in the hotel lounge and more central characters arrive?
(a) He picks a fight with Kilgore.
(b) He sinks deeper into confusion.
(c) He has an outburst.
(d) He starts to cry.

5. What direction is Kilgore traveling in at the beginning of Chapter 16?
(a) West.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) East.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is playing music while Dwayne is in the hotel at the beginning of Chapter 18?

2. What is Kilgore reading as he travels in Chapter 16?

3. What does the 17-year-old waitress see Dwayne as?

4. Who is wearing mirrored sunglasses in the hotel lounge?

5. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of when he meets him face to face?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it that The Narrator claims has been stalking him throughout the book?

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

3. Why does the sight of The Narrator in the hotel Lobby make Kilgore nervous?

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

5. What does The Narrator convince Kilgore of at the end of the novel?

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

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

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

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

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

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