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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 narrator ask Raymond Hessel when he finds his student I.D.?

2. What does one Space Monkey do while the others are holding down the narrator on the bus?

3. What does the narrator take from Raymond Hessel?

4. For what reason does The Narrator tell Marla her life is in danger?

5. What is the name that is given to Fight Club's side project?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the objective of Project Mayhem?

2. 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?

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. Who does the narrator call following his discovery about himself and Tyler being the same person, receiving more confirmation that it is true?

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

10. How did Tyler anticipate the narrator's meddling with Project Mayhem and what did he do to take care of it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

In the initial scene of Fight Club, the narrator mentions anarchy, a gun and an explosion as representative of the triangle that links himself, Tyler and Marla. Based on your knowledge and understanding of the book, explain this triangle and why the narrator likens it to anarchy, a gun and an explosion. Who is what? Are either of the three characters supposed to represent one of these things at all? Would the book have been the same without one of the three? Cite specific examples from the text to support your answer.

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