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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 participate in at the brain parasites meeting?
2. Why does the narrator's boss not allow him to do what he was planning to do?
3. What does Marla notice about the narrator while he is at the Regent Hotel with her?
4. What is Marla doing in the narrator's mind during the support meeting?
5. What is the narrator suffering from at the time he goes to this support group?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator notice when the detective calls him and lists some of the materials there were used in his condo explosion?
2. Why does Tyler tell the narrator not to talk about him to Marla?
3. 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?
4. When the reader first encounters Bob, what does he look like and what does he represent?
5. When Tyler and the narrator first meet, how do their lives and personalities differ?
6. What is the meaning of a single-serving life that the narrator refers to as his own?
7. Why does the narrator frequent support group meetings to rid himself of insomnia?
8. Why does the narrator take delight in thinking of himself and Tyler as "dinner party saboteurs"?
9. What does the narrator's comment about his boss's tie and the day of the week signify?
10. When the narrator confronts Marla about being a "tourist" at the support groups, how does Marla respond?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which character would prevail in our society: Tyler or the narrator? Why? Present your choice in a logical and clear thesis with supporting evidence from the text. Remember to use our society as the context and not the society in the book. Cite specific examples from the text. Bear in mind the character you do not choose and include a sound counter-argument to support your thesis.
Essay Topic 2
In order to generate monetary funds for Project Mayhem, Tyler makes soap from liposuctioned fat and sells it to the local department store. What is the significance of the soap production's irony? How does the soap production mirror Tyler's acts of civil disobedience. What is he trying to do to society? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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