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

2. What does Tyler tell his boss to do after firing him?

3. What does the narrator threaten the hotel manager with?

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

5. What does the narrator tell Marla that Tyler is trying to do to him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the objective of Project Mayhem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why was Fight Club created in the first place? What was the narrator's and Tyler's intention and meaning for Fight Club when it first started - in its purest form. What role was it meant to play within society? How did it morph into Project Mayhem, a complete eradication of society? Describe Fight Club's chronology within the book with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

The narrator and/or Tyler are sexist: true, or false? Support your answer with a thesis that explains why you believe this, or why you don't. How do Tyler and the narrator view women in society? Why was Fight Club only for men? How was Marla treated by either of them? Support your thesis with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the narrator's concept of the single-serving life and its significance to his own life. What kind of social commentary does the narrator provide with this term? How are his feelings on wanting to die linked to the single-serving life? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

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