View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are Tyler and the narrator at the beginning of the novel?
(a) The Empire State Building.
(b) City Hall.
(c) The Parker-Morris Building.
(d) The Tasker-Morris Building.

2. What does the narrator take delight in calling himself and Tyler at the banquet?
(a) Guerilla terrorists.
(b) Thugs.
(c) Hardened criminals.
(d) Gang leaders.

3. Whom does the narrator meet at this support group?
(a) Marla.
(b) Bob.
(c) Tyler.
(d) No one.

4. What are the people on the floors below Tyler and the narrator doing?
(a) Checking the floors.
(b) Stealing office furniture.
(c) Cleaning the offices.
(d) Throwing office furniture out of the window.

5. What is the narrator suffering from at the time he goes to this support group?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Cancer.
(c) Memory loss.
(d) Psychosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator infer when he sees what is in the toilet at the Paper Street house?

2. What did Tyler do to the hostess the first time he sabotaged a dinner party?

3. What does the narrator do to distract himself while Tyler is burning his hand?

4. Who came to the Regent Hotel after Tyler picked up Marla?

5. What does the narrator describe as anarchy, guns and an explosion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the chemical kiss that Tyler burns into the narrator's hand mean?

2. Why does airport security stop the narrator at the airport after one of his business trips?

3. What does the narrator notice on Marla's body besides the lump on her breast?

4. What is the meaning of a single-serving life that the narrator refers to as his own?

5. When the narrator confronts Marla about being a "tourist" at the support groups, how does Marla respond?

6. What is the triangle that the narrator mentions in the opening scene? Why are anarchy, guns and an explosion used to represent that triangle?

7. How is the chemical kiss that Tyler gives the narrator also a symbol for Fight Club?

8. Where does the narrator's jealousy about Marla and Tyler come from?

9. How is Tyler's soap production another rebellion against society, specifically, women?

10. Why does the narrator start writing haikus to his coworkers?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 970 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample