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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 does Tyler tell the narrator he should do while he is being questioned on the phone?
(a) Remember that we are all dying.
(b) Not tell the person his name.
(c) Become truly free from consumer culture.
(d) Stay true to Fight Club and not say a word.

2. Who did Marla say she thought the people calling her and not saying anything were?
(a) People from beyond.
(b) The I.R.S.
(c) The police.
(d) Prank callers.

3. Who thwarts the narrator's attempts to find relief at the support groups?
(a) Tyler.
(b) Bob.
(c) Marla.
(d) No one.

4. What does Tyler urinate into in the stopped elevator?
(a) A casserole.
(b) A bag of chips.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) A bowl of soup.

5. What support group does the narrator attend several months prior to the opening scene?
(a) Brain parasites.
(b) Melanoma.
(c) Brain cancer.
(d) Testicular cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator first meet Tyler Durden?

2. How does the narrator discover that the first two rules of Fight Club are being broken?

3. What is Tyler doing when the narrator first sees him?

4. What does the person calling the Paper Street house ask the narrator about?

5. What does the narrator call his life of travel for his job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tyler tell the narrator not to talk about him to Marla?

2. What was Tyler's first civil disobedience act that the narrator recalls while in the stopped elevator?

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

4. How does the narrator realize that the first two rules of Fight Club are being broken?

5. When Tyler and the narrator first meet, how do their lives and personalities differ?

6. What story does the narrator tell Marla to cheer her up when he finds a lump on her breast?

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

8. Why does the narrator take delight in the demise of Chloe, a brain parasites support group regular?

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

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

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