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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. Who stays with Price even as the others in their group decide to go into the club's basement?
(a) McDermott.
(b) Evelyn.
(c) Courtney.
(d) Bateman.

2. What magazine does Bateman decide to read when he is at his desk when he comes into work late that day?
(a) Playboy.
(b) Sports Illustrated.
(c) GQ.
(d) Harper's.

3. What causes a man to believe that Bateman is flirting with him on the street as he heads to the store?
(a) He pinches his backside.
(b) He admires the man's dog.
(c) He gives the other man his number.
(d) He touches the man.

4. After the concert, Bateman finds out that two of the _____________ tried to get Courtney and Evelyn backstage to meet the band.
(a) Ticket sellers.
(b) Roadies.
(c) Security guards.
(d) Band members.

5. In the club, who decides to cause a scene as someone else is buying drinks and disappearing down the train tracks?
(a) Evelyn.
(b) Price.
(c) McDermott.
(d) Bateman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bateman and Price realize about the cocaine they thought they had bought? What does it turn out to be?

2. Bateman, over dinner, feels he embarrassed himself by expressing his opinion on America's ___________________.

3. While at dinner, Bateman and his friends discuss questions they might want to send into a magazine. What magazine is discussed?

4. What does Bateman's secretary remind him that he has to do while he is up and nursing a hangover after the restaurant?

5. As his co-worker is talking, Bateman thinks about the Patty Winters Show and the ___________ parade he saw on his way to work.

Short Essay Questions

1. Though Bateman apologizes about disliking the pizza at Pastels, what does McDermott insist about this pizza?

2. What does Bateman feel he has embarrassed himself with in the course of the dinner conversation?

3. What is the problem at the dry cleaners at the start of this section of the book which causes Bateman to argue with the owners?

4. When Evelyn asks whether Bateman has seen Tim Price, what does Bateman reveal that he knows about Price?

5. What do Bateman and Evelyn find when they go into the bathroom in order to do the drugs they bought?

6. How does Bateman brush off the girl from his apartment who wants to make a date with him?

7. Who is the other couple that is in the apartment with Bateman, Price, and the two women?

8. Why does Bateman become angry with Evelyn during the course of his dinner with her?

9. What does Bateman think about his secretary, Jean, as he indicates in the narrative?

10. What does Bateman tell his co-worker during the lunch when they talk about the Bahamas, though his co-worker doesn't hear what Bateman said?

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