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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 does the narrator ask Marla to do so that Tyler cannot accomplish his goals?

2. What does Marla say the Space Monkeys are doing at the Paper Street house?

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

4. Why did the narrator give permission to Tyler to go ahead and kill his boss?

5. How does the narrator know the members of Project Mayhem are keeping track of him?

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 discover when he reaches his company's building following Bob's death and how does he know this?

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

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

5. Who does the narrator call following his discovery about himself and Tyler being the same person, receiving more confirmation that it is true?

6. Why does the narrator tell Marla to keep him awake and, in the event that he does fall asleep, follow him and take note of everything he does?

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

8. What is the point of Tyler's initiation process into Project Mayhem?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, the narrator talks about death and wanting to die. At the end of the book, he pulls the trigger but does not actually die and lives on in a mental institution. What is the significance of death to the narrator and the book? Does death take on a different meaning at the book's end? Does it not? Support your answer with specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Tyler uses lye to burn a kiss-shaped scar into the back of the narrator's hand. It eventually becomes the brand of Fight Club. Using the scene between Tyler and the narrator, explain what the chemical kiss is and what it means to Fight Club and its mission. Cite other moments in the text where the chemical kiss makes an appearance. Is its meaning the same in those instances? Explain the significance of the ritualistic branding in Fight Club.

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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