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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 mechanic ask the narrator following the car crash?

2. What does the narrator wonder about when he sees all the acts of vandalism in the news?

3. When the narrator comes back to the Paper Street house, what is he afraid of seeing in the refrigerator?

4. How do the men with beat-up faces respond to the narrator's questions?

5. What does Marla say the Space Monkeys are doing at the Paper Street house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Tyler able to set up the different Fight Clubs, give other people chemical kisses and start Project Mayhem without the narrator knowing?

2. How does The Narrator find out that he killed Patrick Madden?

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

4. 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?

5. What does The Narrator do when he learns that he killed Patrick Madden?

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator do when his boss at the hotel attempts to fire him and why?

10. Why are the members of Project Mayhem called Space Monkeys?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, the narrator talks about death and wanting to die. At the end of the book, he pulls the trigger but does not actually die and lives on in a mental institution. What is the significance of death to the narrator and the book? Does death take on a different meaning at the book's end? Does it not? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The Narrator likes Marla despite Tyler's denunciations of everything wrong that she represents. If Tyler and the narrator are the same person and Tyler wants to eradicate society, how can the narrator like Marla? Resolve this contradiction by using specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Marla Singer is meant to represent everything that is wrong within society. She is Tyler's argument for why society must be defied and uprooted back to zero. Would you agree or disagree? Why? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

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