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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 does the patient wear at the end of the chapter where Denny and Victor go to St. Anthony's?

2. What does Victor's mother tell Paige Marshall parenthood is?

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

4. What is the narrator's name?

5. Who does Victor go to the restaurant with the first time he is shown choking as an adult?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain some of the codes that Ida tells Victor are the important lessons in life.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Why does Victor admit to raping Eva?

6. When Paige Marshall tells Victor she can restore his mother to the way she used to be, he says, "God forbid." Why would he say that?

7. Why does Victor force himself to choke on his dinner?

8. Why does Denny have a rock when he arrives at Victor's house?

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

10. What are Victor and Denny each doing at the strip club?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Chuck Palahniuk is known for his minimalist writing. Discuss each of the following devises in the context of how it contributed to literary minimalism.

a. Palahniuk's use of "See also: . . . " For example, "See also: Hypothermia. See also: Typhoid Fever."

b. Palahniuk also uses the phrase " . . . is not the right word, but it's the first word to come to mind" frequently in Choke.

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