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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 do the Space Monkeys on the bus try to do to the narrator?

2. The Narrator gets on a bus with twenty men who have shaved heads. What are the men holding in their hands?

3. Where did Tyler use the chill-and-drill technique before?

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

5. Why did the police shoot and kill Bob while he was on his chill-and-drill assignment?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the objective of Project Mayhem?

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

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

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

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

8. How was Tyler able to set up the different Fight Clubs, give other people chemical kisses and start Project Mayhem without the narrator knowing?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the character in the mental institution at the end of Fight Club? Tyler, or the narrator? Based on the struggle between the two characters for power, which character would make the most sense? Support your answer with specific examples from the text, presenting a clear and cohesive argument.

Essay Topic 2

The Narrator is assigned twelve human sacrifices and he starts with Raymond Hessel. What is the significance of the human sacrifices Project Mayhem assigns and how are they meant to function within Project Mayhem? Include your own opinion on whether or not you believe these sacrifices to be inherently good or bad (i.e., what does the narrator ultimately do for Raymond Hessel?). Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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