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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 is the last rule of Project Mayhem that the three Space Monkeys in the Cadillac recite?

2. Who calls Tyler into his office to fire him from his job?

3. What does the narrator do while looking out the window of the building he woke up in after the bus full of Space Monkeys tried to castrate him?

4. What is one of the things the mechanic tells the narrator to buy as part of his assignment?

5. How many days does the young man stand on the Paper Street house porch until Tyler lets him in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does the narrator find out is going on at home when he returns to the Paper Street house from the bar in Seattle?

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

5. What is the narrator thinking about at the window of his exploded condominium and what stops him from stepping over the edge?

6. 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?

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

8. What is the point of Tyler's initiation process into Project Mayhem?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The narrator's and Marla's infatuation with death began much earlier than Fight Club. At one point in the narrator's life he thought he had cancer. The same goes for Marla, except she actually does have cancer. How is death significant to both of these characters' lives, but in different ways? How do they view death? Are their views similar, or different? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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