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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 Pris not have?

2. Which city is the Rosen Corporation located?

3. What does Rick's wife accuse him of being?

4. Where does Deckard work?

5. What composer does Deckard think about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do think Mercer has become such a central figure on earth?

2. Why do you think Rick has a need to hold on to what he regards as reality?

3. In chapter 15 what do you think the androids discussion says about how they operate as androids?

4. What do the fact that the androids vote show about the androids?

5. What does the Rosen Corporation symbolize to Rick?

6. Why do you think Mercerism has become the dominant theology?

7. In what way do Rick and Bryant's opinion differ in terms of Rick's work?

8. In chapter 10 why do you think Rick doubts he is in a real police department?

9. What kind of questions does Rick ask himself during his climb?

10. In what ways does Dick shows the difference between Isidore and Stratton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Philip K. Dick is said to be a writer existentialist fiction with Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? one of his major works.

1) What is existentialist fiction?

2) What elements of existentialist fiction can you see within the novel's structure?

3) In what ways is Rick Deckard a typical existentialist character?

Essay Topic 2

While Dick writes about a future world he takes elements and even generic conventions from other genre's. For example the main character Rick Deckard has the lonely and cynical view of a private eye from a Ray Chandler novel

1) What other generic conventions does Dick use in the novel? Are they merely homages?

2) In which ways do you think the future setting of the novel changes the meaning of any generic conventions Dick uses?

Essay Topic 3

In the book there are a number of characters that are either rarely seen or are never scene, but play a big part in the book. These include Polotov, Dan Holden, Mercer and Buster Friendly. Choose one of these characters and discuss what role they play in the story? In what ways does their presence affect the main character? Do they have as much influence on the main character as some of the more prominent characters in the book?

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