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

2. What error does The Narrator note about Kilgore that he should change, but will not because it would be too complicated?
(a) Francine's character.
(b) Celia's suicide.
(c) The trip and its timeline.
(d) Bunny playing the piano.

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

4. What can the reader do, according to the literature Kilgore is reading?
(a) What the creator deems necessary.
(b) Nothing. The reader is a slave.
(c) Discover free will.
(d) Anything at anytime.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Kilgore devastated about after being recognized at the hotel?

3. When Dwayne has difficulty hitting the person he finds in the hotel parking lot after his rampage, what does he do instead?

4. What does the person who recognizes Kilgore at the hotel claim he has returned from?

5. What does Dwayne do when he gets back to the car dealership?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Kilgore and the driver drive by in West Virginia and who was it founded by?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Bunny not fight back when his father, Dwayne, assaults him in the hotel lounge?

10. Why did Dwayne send his son, Bunny, to a military school?

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