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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 do to distract himself while attempting to climb out one of the bus windows?

2. What does the narrator ask the mechanic while he is driving the Cadillac?

3. What do Marla and the narrator decide to do to pass the time and keep him awake?

4. What is the chill-and-drill assignment Bob is on?

5. What stops the narrator from jumping out of the window and killing himself?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator do when his boss at the hotel attempts to fire him and why?

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. What does The Narrator do when he learns that he killed Patrick Madden?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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