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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 are the people on the floors below Tyler and the narrator doing?

2. What is in the narrator's mouth when the book opens?

3. Which member of the brain parasites support group does the narrator learn has died?

4. What is the narrator's job title?

5. The narrator tells his boss to be careful who he shows the piece of paper to. What reason does he give for this?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator's comment about his boss's tie and the day of the week signify?

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

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

4. When Tyler and the narrator first meet, how do their lives and personalities differ?

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

6. How is Tyler's soap production another rebellion against society, specifically, women?

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

8. Why does Tyler tell the narrator not to talk about him to Marla?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Narrator likes Marla despite Tyler's denunciations of everything wrong that she represents. If Tyler and the narrator are the same person and Tyler wants to eradicate society, how can the narrator like Marla? Resolve this contradiction by using specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the narrator's concept of the single-serving life and its significance to his own life. What kind of social commentary does the narrator provide with this term? How are his feelings on wanting to die linked to the single-serving life? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Tyler utilizes Space Monkeys in order to carry out the objectives for Project Mayhem - his plan for uprooting society and turning men back to their basic instincts within nature. Describe what Space Monkeys are, their initiation process into Project Mayhem, their homework assignments, their rules, etc. Do Space Monkeys and their tasks contradict the goal of Project Mayhem? Why, or why not? Cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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