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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. While traveling for business, what does the narrator ask the men he sees with beat-up faces?

2. Who is waiting for the narrator in the parking lot with a Cadillac?

3. Where do the narrator and Marla hide out so that the narrator cannot fall asleep?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6. Why are the members of Project Mayhem called Space Monkeys?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The Narrator likes Marla despite Tyler's denunciations of everything wrong that she represents. If Tyler and the narrator are the same person and Tyler wants to eradicate society, how can the narrator like Marla? Resolve this contradiction by using specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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