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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. Following Tyler's and the narrator's first fight, what is the narrator preparing to do at work?
(a) Give a presentation.
(b) Go home sick.
(c) Tell off his boss.
(d) Quit his job.

2. What does the narrator infer when he sees what is in the toilet at the Paper Street house?
(a) The narrator must have been sick during the night.
(b) Tyler is out of his mind.
(c) Tyler must be sick.
(d) Tyler and Marla have met.

3. Who are on the floors below Tyler and the narrator in the opening scene of the book?
(a) Burglars.
(b) The Members of the Mischief Committee.
(c) The security guards.
(d) The cleaning people.

4. What does the narrator find in the toilet at the Paper Street house?
(a) Pills.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) A condom.
(d) Vomit.

5. What does the narrator recite while with Tyler?
(a) Different ways to defuse an explosive.
(b) Different ways to make explosives.
(c) Different places to find explosives.
(d) Different kinds of explosives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tyler ask the narrator never to do concerning Marla?

2. What does the narrator listen to Tyler recount while he is being held captive by Tyler?

3. What does Marla do when the narrator tells her the fat is used to make soap?

4. What does Marla ask the narrator to do for her at the Regent Hotel?

5. What does the narrator dream about after calling Marla to ask if she was going to the support group meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the narrator confronts Marla about being a "tourist" at the support groups, how does Marla respond?

2. How does the narrator realize that the first two rules of Fight Club are being broken?

3. Why does the narrator feel secretly relieved about his condominium exploding?

4. What is the triangle that the narrator mentions in the opening scene? Why are anarchy, guns and an explosion used to represent that triangle?

5. Why can't the narrator cry when Marla is at the same support groups as him?

6. After the narrator's boss finds the Fight Club rules, he and the narrator have a conversation. What does this conversation signify about the narrator?

7. Why does the narrator take delight in thinking of himself and Tyler as "dinner party saboteurs"?

8. When the reader first encounters Bob, what does he look like and what does he represent?

9. What did Tyler do to Marla's mother that the narrator was so upset about?

10. Why does the narrator frequent support group meetings to rid himself of insomnia?

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