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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. Why does the narrator go to a Fight Club meeting and register to fight a total of fifty men?

2. The Narrator gets on a bus with twenty men who have shaved heads. What are the men holding in their hands?

3. How does the narrator know his boss is dead?

4. Who is waiting for the narrator in the parking lot with a Cadillac?

5. Following Tyler's admittance of the young man into the Paper Street house, where does the narrator finally fall asleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Marla's life in danger now that she has been following the narrator as his split personality, Tyler?

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

3. What is the point of the mechanic's homework assignment to take four human lives?

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

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

6. What does the narrator tell the mechanic right before the car crash and why?

7. Why does the narrator go through Raymond Hessel's wallet during his homework assignment?

8. How does Tyler say he settled the problem with the Seattle police and their cracking down on Fight Club?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Tyler utilizes Space Monkeys in order to carry out the objectives for Project Mayhem - his plan for uprooting society and turning men back to their basic instincts within nature. Describe what Space Monkeys are, their initiation process into Project Mayhem, their homework assignments, their rules, etc. Do Space Monkeys and their tasks contradict the goal of Project Mayhem? Why, or why not? Cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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