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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 Victor admit to doing when the police show up at his job?

2. Who calls while they watch the news broadcast?

3. Who does Victor meet before sex addiction class in Chapter 39?

4. What does Victor ask Denny if he thinks he resembles?

5. Why does Victor think he couldn't have sex with Dr. Marshall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Victor and Denny walking around the neighborhood in Chapter 26?

2. What does Victor do to make himself choke at the police station?

3. Describe how Victor makes an ear candle, and how he says it works.

4. Describe Victor waiting for Gwen.

5. What is different about Victor's encounter with Leeza after he is told he has divine origins than his other encounters with her?

6. How does Victor and Denny's first encounter go at the site where Denny is building a wall of stones?

7. What does Ursula say about Denny while she and Victor are fooling around in the shed?

8. Why does Denny's wall fall?

9. What happens when Paige attempts to help save Ida?

10. What is Victor's relationship with Tanya?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Victor keeps retuning to flashbacks of himself as a child with Ida. Analyze the relationship between Ida and Victor when he was a child.

a. Did they have a good relationship?

1. How does Victor know how to find his mother?

2. How does he attempt to get away from her?

b. It is revealed that Ida is not Victor's birth mother at the end of the book. Compare and contrast Ida's mother-like behaviors with her inabilities as a parent.

Essay Topic 3

Victor's first sexual experience is described in Chapter 40.

a. What happens in Victor's first sexual experience? Where is he? How does it happen?

b. What does Tracy get upset with Victor about?

c. According to Victor's therapy, what is the significance of this event?

d. How does this event lead to Victor's addiction?

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