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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 mechanic holding while on the bus with the narrator?

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

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

4. What does the narrator tell Raymond Hessel to do, or else he will kill him?

5. What is Bob's real name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 does the narrator tell the mechanic he wishes he had done before he died and why?

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

9. How does the narrator realize that he is Tyler Durden?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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