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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. Following Tyler's admittance of the young man into the Paper Street house, where does the narrator finally fall asleep?
(a) On a bus.
(b) His office desk.
(c) The Paper Street basement.
(d) Marla's bed.

2. What does the narrator's boss at the hotel say to the narrator when he comes into his office?
(a) He thinks the narrator needs to take some time off.
(b) He knows about the disgusting things the narrator has done to the food.
(c) He wants to get the narrator medical help.
(d) He wants to promote the narrator for a job well done.

3. How does the narrator know the members of Project Mayhem are keeping track of him?
(a) Marla calls him "sir."
(b) The Regent Hotel desk clerk calls him "sir."
(c) He sees a group of men following him.
(d) The taxi driver calls him "sir."

4. What does the narrator smell on his hands after Tyler calls him and says the guys are in the parking lot?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Soap.
(d) Cologne.

5. How did Tyler take care of the police problem in Seattle?
(a) The Assault Committee threatened to castrate the police commissioner.
(b) The Mischief Committee threatened to castrate the police commissioner.
(c) The Assault Committee killed the police commissioner.
(d) The Mischief Committee killed the police commissioner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Raymond Hessel part of the narrator's assignment?

2. What does the narrator plead to his boss while he beats himself up?

3. What does the narrator ask the mechanic while he is driving the Cadillac?

4. What do the Space Monkeys on the bus try to do to the narrator?

5. What does Tyler tell the first young man who shows up on the Paper Street house porch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do members of Project Mayhem understand it is better to be shot and killed, which is what happened to Bob, than to go to jail?

2. Why does Tyler blackmail his boss at the film projectionists union?

3. What does the narrator realize following Bob's death?

4. What is the objective of Project Mayhem?

5. What does the narrator discover when he reaches his company's building following Bob's death and how does he know this?

6. Why does the narrator go through Raymond Hessel's wallet during his homework assignment?

7. Why is Marla's life in danger now that she has been following the narrator as his split personality, Tyler?

8. What does one of the Space Monkeys do while the rest are trying to hold the narrator down for castration?

9. What is the purpose of the different committees within Project Mayhem?

10. Why does the narrator tell Marla to keep him awake and, in the event that he does fall asleep, follow him and take note of everything he does?

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