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

2. What is the narrator's name?

3. What did Victor ask when he was taken to the police station as a boy and was questioned about the location of his mother?

4. What does the narrator claim all of his co-workers are addicted to?

5. What do the letters that Ida Mancini got arrested for mailing relate to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

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

3. Why would the narrator of the book start by saying not to read the book? What does this suggest about the narrator?

4. What does Ida do while walking around neighborhoods to get high for free?

5. What happens when Victor is questioned at the police station as a boy?

6. 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.

7. In what case does Dr. Marshall tell Victor that he may be his own father?

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

9. Why does Victor say that Colonial Dunsboro and St. Anthony's are both trapped in the past?

10. Describe the conversation Victor and Paige have the first time they see each other after Victor runs out on Paige at the chapel.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Irony surrounds Ida Mancini's character. Describe the irony in the following situations:

a. Ida's death.

b. Victor's inability to have sex with Paige Marshall when she says it will help save Ida's life.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Victor wants to know who his father is, so Paige Marshall reads his mother's diary.

a. What does Paige tell Victor the Diary says about him?

b. In what ways does Victor reject this news?

c. In what ways does Victor embrace this news?

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