View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are people bringing Denny at the end of the book?

2. What is the girl whose house Victor waits in named?

3. What is the second object Victor tries to choke on at the police station?

4. What does Denny tell the film crews he's building?

5. Where is Victor hiding at the girl's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Victor do to Paige before leaving the hospital?

2. What happens when Victor tells Ida he knows about being Jesus?

3. What do we learn about Victor's relationship with his mother during the final flashback chapter?

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

5. How is Denny's rock collecting going by the middle of the book?

6. Who does Paige Marshall claim to be after Victor sees her patient bracelet?

7. What happens when the police officer pounds Victor on the back?

8. What does Ida say about Victor's love life?

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

10. Describe Victor waiting for Gwen.

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

Describe the irony of why Victor and Denny went to the strip club.

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 637 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample