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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator dream about after calling Marla to ask if she was going to the support group meeting?
(a) Having sex with Marla.
(b) Killing Marla.
(c) Moving out of the Paper Street house.
(d) Going to Fight Club.

2. What does the narrator learn about through his job?
(a) Impending lay-offs.
(b) Corrupt business practices.
(c) Stock quotes.
(d) Insider trading tips.

3. Where does the narrator first meet Tyler Durden?
(a) The beach.
(b) A park.
(c) The city.
(d) On a plane.

4. Who are on the floors below Tyler and the narrator in the opening scene of the book?
(a) The cleaning people.
(b) The security guards.
(c) The Members of the Mischief Committee.
(d) Burglars.

5. How does the narrator discover that the first two rules of Fight Club are being broken?
(a) He sees messages written on bathroom stalls about Fight Club.
(b) He sees a lot of men with broken faces.
(c) He learns how popular it has become.
(d) He sees flyers up for Fight Club.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bob tell the narrator about Tyler?

2. How did Tyler alert the hostess about what he did to her bottle of perfume?

3. What literary device does the narrator use to tell the story that led up to this moment?

4. What did Tyler send Marla's mother that the narrator is confused about?

5. What did Tyler do to the hostess the first time he sabotaged a dinner party?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator realize that the first two rules of Fight Club are being broken?

2. Why does airport security stop the narrator at the airport after one of his business trips?

3. How is the chemical kiss that Tyler gives the narrator also a symbol for Fight Club?

4. What is the meaning of a single-serving life that the narrator refers to as his own?

5. Why does the narrator take delight in thinking of himself and Tyler as "dinner party saboteurs"?

6. Why does the narrator frequent support group meetings to rid himself of insomnia?

7. What does the narrator notice when the detective calls him and lists some of the materials there were used in his condo explosion?

8. Why can't the narrator cry when Marla is at the same support groups as him?

9. What did Tyler do to Marla's mother that the narrator was so upset about?

10. Why does Tyler tell the narrator not to talk about him to Marla?

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