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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. Which number best represents the number of names in Victor's "Hero Book?"

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

3. Many times, how does Victor pick a restaurant?

4. What does Ida Mancini say her goal in life is while walking through neighborhoods with Victor?

5. What keeps the patients on the ward at St. Anthony's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspects does Victor take into consideration when selecting a restaurant?

2. What happens when Victor meets Paige Marshal in the chapel?

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

4. Explain the connection Victor makes in Chapter 15 when he and his mother are in the stalled car and the pornography he saw as a child.

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

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

7. What causes Victors mother to say to Victor, "Oh, blessed Father. Holy Father. Oh, please forgive me?"

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

9. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Victor chokes on food to get the money he needs to keep his mother in a hospital.

a. Analyze the irony of Victor's choking.

b. Compare and contrast Victor's first experience with choking as a boy as it is told at the beginning of the book to how it is told at the end of the book.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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