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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 one Space Monkey do while the others are holding down the narrator on the bus?

2. What does the narrator notice about the Space Monkeys at the Paper Street house after returning from the bar in Seattle?

3. What does the narrator ask the mechanic about him crashing the car?

4. How does the narrator convince Marla that he is not Tyler Durden?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the objective of Project Mayhem?

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

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

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

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

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 the mechanic's homework assignment to take four human lives?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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