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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 Tyler tell the narrator about how he met Maria?

2. What brand is the narrator's furniture that is out in the street?

3. What does Marla store in the freezer for Tyler that belonged to her mother?

4. What does Tyler sell that he makes using homemade ingredients?

5. What do the police suspect caused the damage to the narrator's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Marla tell the narrator was her reason for not wanting to know about her breast cancer when she found the first lump?

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

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

5. Why does the narrator frequent support group meetings to rid himself of insomnia?

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

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

8. Why does the narrator take delight in thinking of himself and Tyler as "dinner party saboteurs"?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrator's concept of the single-serving life and its significance to his own life. What kind of social commentary does the narrator provide with this term? How are his feelings on wanting to die linked to the single-serving life? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The Narrator is assigned twelve human sacrifices and he starts with Raymond Hessel. What is the significance of the human sacrifices Project Mayhem assigns and how are they meant to function within Project Mayhem? Include your own opinion on whether or not you believe these sacrifices to be inherently good or bad (i.e., what does the narrator ultimately do for Raymond Hessel?). Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

The society that the narrator lives in is extremely similar to, if not the same, as the society that we live in today. True or false? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

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