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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 the narrator fantasize about when traveling for his job?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) A different job.
(d) Money.

2. How did Tyler alert the hostess about what he did to her bottle of perfume?
(a) Showed her pictures of the act.
(b) Left her clues.
(c) Drew her a picture.
(d) Wrote her an anonymous note.

3. What was Tyler's job when he first did something like sabotaging a dinner party?
(a) Caterer.
(b) Despoiler.
(c) Usher.
(d) Prep cook.

4. What does the narrator dream about after calling Marla to ask if she was going to the support group meeting?
(a) Killing Marla.
(b) Having sex with Marla.
(c) Moving out of the Paper Street house.
(d) Going to Fight Club.

5. What does Tyler remind the narrator of while his hand is burning?
(a) No one cares about the narrator.
(b) Someday the narrator will die.
(c) No one can help the narrator but himself.
(d) The narrator can transcend death if he wants to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's job title?

2. What are the articles about that the narrator reads to distract himself?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why can't the narrator cry when Marla is at the same support groups as him?

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

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

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

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

10. After the narrator's boss finds the Fight Club rules, he and the narrator have a conversation. What does this conversation signify about the narrator?

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