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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 is Denny building with his stones the first time Victor visits his building site?

2. What does Victor buy on the way to see his mother?

3. What happens to Ida after she tells Victor about his past?

4. What do the police tell Victor has happened to Paige?

5. What is Victor having trouble with while laying in the hay?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Victor on television?

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

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

6. What does Victor find the second time he searches the security monitors?

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

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

9. Describe Victor waiting for Gwen.

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

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

Symbolism is an important part of Choke.

a. What is Victor's choking symbolic of? How has it brought Victor and Ida closer together both when victor was young and as an adult?

b. What is Victor having anal beads stuck in his rectum symbolic of? What is symbolized when they come out?

c. What is the dental floss Paige uses on Victor symbolic of?

d. How is Victor's life at work symbolic of his real life?

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