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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. What does Tyler urge the narrator to realize while his hand is burning?
(a) The fear.
(b) The hopelessness.
(c) The pain.
(d) The insanity.

2. How does the narrator realize it is Tuesday while his boss reads from the paper he found in the copy machine?
(a) His boss only comes in on Tuesdays.
(b) His boss is wearing his gray tie.
(c) His boss read the date from the piece of paper.
(d) His boss is holding his Number One Boss mug.

3. What does the narrator notice about Marla while he is at the Regent Hotel with her?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She seems tired and has not slept for days.
(c) She has a chemical burn too.
(d) Her clothes are ripped and dirty.

4. What does the narrator call his life of travel for his job?
(a) A waste of time.
(b) Single-serving.
(c) Self-serving.
(d) Meaningless.

5. Why is one of the narrator's bags delayed at the airport?
(a) It was vibrating.
(b) It was stopped by a narcotics dog.
(c) It had no tag on it.
(d) It was sent to the wrong baggage claim.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator arrives at the meeting, Bob is there. What does Bob tell him?

2. Where are Tyler and the narrator at the beginning of the novel?

3. What does the person calling the Paper Street house ask the narrator about?

4. What did Marla tell the narrator was her reason for not wanting to go to the support group meeting?

5. Following his first encounter with Tyler, which support group does the narrator visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What story does the narrator tell Marla to cheer her up when he finds a lump on her breast?

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

4. What does the chemical kiss that Tyler burns into the narrator's hand mean?

5. Why does Tyler urinate into the soup at the banquet for dignitaries?

6. Why does airport security stop the narrator at the airport after one of his business trips?

7. What does the narrator notice when the detective calls him and lists some of the materials there were used in his condo explosion?

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

9. What does Marla tell the narrator was her reason for not wanting to know about her breast cancer when she found the first lump?

10. What was Tyler's first civil disobedience act that the narrator recalls while in the stopped elevator?

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