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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bateman get the child to come with him when they are at the answer to #134?

2. What does Bateman give to Jean at the end of the night of their first date together?

3. Where does Bateman's dinner partner want to go, though Bateman realizes he will be unable to secure reservations there?

4. Who happens to witness the shooting of the musician though Bateman didn't see him there before shooting?

5. When Bateman sees a man playing a __________ outside of the club, he goes up to him and shoots him in the head.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bateman discover when he goes back to look at the body of Paul Owen?

2. What does Bateman call his lawyer and say when he completes his killing spree one evening?

3. Why does Bateman not end up shooting and killing everyone at the gym where he works out?

4. Why did the girl from the meat packing district decide to go with Bateman again, even though he tortured her the last time?

5. What does the private detective already seem to believe about the disappearance of Paul Owen?

6. What does Bateman's mother say to him when Bateman goes out to the assisted living facility to visit her?

7. What does Bateman decide to do when he realizes he does not have plans for dinner that evening?

8. Why does Bateman decide to go to dinner with his brother, even though he is not very close to him?

9. What does Bateman use to kill the woman he picks up at a club during the first part of this section?

10. What does Ted Bundy reveal in his letters to his fiancee as Bateman hears them read on the Patty Winters show?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bateman seems to be a person who is very methodical in the way he approaches his life.

Part 1: Do you think it's a normal behavior to have a very rigid schedule? Why or why not?

Part 2: What do you think would happen if Bateman was not able to follow each of the rigid steps in his everyday schedule? Why?

Part 3: How do you think the rigid cleaning schedule of Bateman helps him in his life? Why?

Essay Topic 2

In the beginning of the novel, Tim Price is talking nonstop about the world, filling up the air with meaningless conversation.

Part 1: Why do you think Price felt the need to keep talking while riding in a taxi with Bateman?

Part 2: Do you think that you always need to talk in order to fill up quiet time in a conversation? Why or why not?

Part 3: How do you think you would behave when you were in a car with a person like Bateman? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the book, names from the late 1980s are mentioned in the narrative by Bateman.

Part 1: Why do you think it's important for Bateman to name names in this book?

Part 2: How do you feel about someone who seems to be a name-dropper, or someone who is only interested in talking about the 'cool' people he knows or meets?

Part 3: Do you think that being obsessed with pop culture is a good thing? Why or why not?

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