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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the favor Tyler asks of the narrator after agreeing to let the narrator stay with him?
(a) To hit Tyler as hard as he can.
(b) Not to swindle Tyler.
(c) To help Tyler with a job.
(d) To pay Tyler rent.

2. What does Tyler urge the narrator to realize while his hand is burning?
(a) The pain.
(b) The insanity.
(c) The hopelessness.
(d) The fear.

3. Why does the narrator wonder if Tyler and Marla are the same person?
(a) They are never in the same room at the same time.
(b) They are so similar.
(c) They are always together.
(d) They wear the same clothes.

4. What does the narrator find in the toilet at the Paper Street house?
(a) Vomit.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Pills.
(d) A condom.

5. Why does the narrator's boss not allow him to do what he was planning to do?
(a) Because the narrator's face is bloodied and stitched up.
(b) Because the narrator has a bad attitude.
(c) Because the narrator does not look visibly ill.
(d) Because the boss wants to do the job himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marla doing in the narrator's mind during the support meeting?

2. When the narrator arrives at the meeting, Bob is there. What does Bob tell him?

3. What did Tyler send Marla's mother that the narrator is confused about?

4. What brand is the narrator's furniture that is out in the street?

5. What do the police suspect caused the damage to the narrator's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator feel secretly relieved about his condominium exploding?

2. Why does the narrator take delight in thinking of himself and Tyler as "dinner party saboteurs"?

3. What did Tyler do to Marla's mother that the narrator was so upset about?

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

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

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

7. What does the narrator's comment about his boss's tie and the day of the week signify?

8. When the reader first encounters Bob, what does he look like and what does he represent?

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

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

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