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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 intended purpose of using liposuctioned fat found in medical waste dumps for soap production?

2. What does the narrator ask that the bartender thinks is a test?

3. Where does Marla say she saw the narrator shoot a man?

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

5. How did Tyler blackmail his boss after he fired him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why would the narrator rather see Raymond Hessel shot and dead than working in the convenience store?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the narrator discover when he reaches his company's building following Bob's death and how does he know this?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the reader first meets the narrator, he is struggling with ongoing insomnia. Eventually, Tyler Durden emerges when the narrator is asleep and causes chaos within the narrator's life and society at large. Would this have happened had the narrator not been an insomniac? Did the narrator always have Tyler within him and, therefore, would he have come out at some point no matter what? Why, or why not? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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 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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