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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. What does Victor tell one of the women dancers at the strip club?

2. What does Victor initially think Denny is holding when he arrives at Victor's house the first time?

3. What does the narrator claim all of his co-workers are addicted to?

4. What is the name of the girl the narrator meets at the church?

5. What did Victor ask when he was taken to the police station as a boy and was questioned about the location of his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Victor admit to raping Eva?

2. What does the newspaper advertisement say that Denny shows Victor?

3. What is Victor's opinion of his mother's well-being?

4. Why does Denny have a rock when he arrives at Victor's house?

5. What is Victor's opinion of his divine origins at first?

6. Why does Paige Marshall assume Victor is not attracted to her?

7. What does Victor do when the girl leaves the front desk at St. Anthony's?

8. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

9. What are Victor and Denny each doing at the strip club?

10. Explain some of the codes that Ida tells Victor are the important lessons in life.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dependence is a common theme of Choke as well as addictions. How are each of the following dependent on one another?

a. Young Victor and his mother.

b. Adult Victor and Ida Mancini.

c. Denny and Victor.

Essay Topic 2

People with addictions are often experts of denial. Victor is no exception.

a. Explain how Victor's explanation of step 4 of his 12 step program could be seen as denial.

b. Explain how denial consumes Victor after Paige tells him his mother thinks he is the second coming of Christ.

Essay Topic 3

Traditionally in literature a wall symbolizes captivity. Denny's wall can be said to symbolize both freedom and captivity.

a. How does Denny's wall symbolize freedom?

b. How does the wall symbolize bondage?

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