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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 keeps the patients on the ward at St. Anthony's?

2. Which number best represents the number of names in Victor's "Hero Book?"

3. What does Mrs. Tsunimitsu claim?

4. What does Victor say to Paige Marshall's offer the second time they meet?

5. Where in the church is the narrator's meeting held?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Victor's relationship with his mother.

2. In what case does Dr. Marshall tell Victor that he may be his own father?

3. What does Victor do when the girl leaves the front desk at St. Anthony's?

4. Explain Victor's "Hero Book."

5. Discuss Victor's Mother's insecurities when she picked him up from the mall.

6. Describe the conversation Victor and Paige have the first time they see each other after Victor runs out on Paige at the chapel.

7. What does Victor know about Paige Marshall in the first part of this book?

8. When Paige Marshall tells Victor she can restore his mother to the way she used to be, he says, "God forbid." Why would he say that?

9. What does Ida do while walking around neighborhoods to get high for free?

10. Why does Victor admit to raping Eva?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Symbolism is an important part of Choke.

a. What is Victor's choking symbolic of? How has it brought Victor and Ida closer together both when victor was young and as an adult?

b. What is Victor having anal beads stuck in his rectum symbolic of? What is symbolized when they come out?

c. What is the dental floss Paige uses on Victor symbolic of?

d. How is Victor's life at work symbolic of his real life?

Essay Topic 2

Victor chokes on food to get the money he needs to keep his mother in a hospital.

a. Analyze the irony of Victor's choking.

b. Compare and contrast Victor's first experience with choking as a boy as it is told at the beginning of the book to how it is told at the end of the book.

Essay Topic 3

Ida and Paige are often seen together, and Paige is the only character other than Victor to have a relationship with Ida.

a. How does Ida see their relationship?

b. How does Paige see their relationship?

c. How does Victor see their relationship?

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