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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator find in the toilet at the Paper Street house?

2. What does the narrator dream about after calling Marla to ask if she was going to the support group meeting?

3. How does the narrator finally meet Marla Singer?

4. What does the person who calls the Paper Street house and questions the narrator tell him?

5. What does Tyler urge the narrator to realize while his hand is burning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Tyler urinate into the soup at the banquet for dignitaries?

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

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

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

6. Why is Fight Club a males-only club?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the Paper Street house, the narrator finds magazine articles about human organs talking in the first person. What significance do these articles have to the narrator? Society? What is the meaning of Palahniuk's inclusion of these articles in Fight Club? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What was Palahniuk's intention in making the narrator a schizophrenic? What are the implications of the narrator having this disorder? What does the reader's eventual discovery of the narrator's condition do for the reader? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Who is the character in the mental institution at the end of Fight Club? Tyler, or the narrator? Based on the struggle between the two characters for power, which character would make the most sense? Support your answer with specific examples from the text, presenting a clear and cohesive argument.

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