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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. After Jason Taverner calls Heather Hart, what happens?
2. Kathy tells Jason Taverner that her own aura is what color?
3. What liquid does Jason Taverner use to minimize the damage inflicted by his protégée's attack?
4. How old is Kathy, the young woman to whom the motel clerk takes Jason?
5. For what length of time has Jason Taverner had one particular protégée?
Short Essay Questions
1. To what location does the quibble driver take Jason Taverner and for what purpose?
2. In what ways does Buckman consider himself different from other law enforcement officials?
3. Discuss Philip K. Dick's use of allusion in concert with the depiction of Felix Buckman.
4. What is the connection between Jason and Marilyn Mason and how does he feel when she calls him?
5. What confession does Kathy make to Jason after pulling him into a closet in her apartment?
6. What reward does Kathy demand in return for her promise not to inform on Jason Taverner?
7. Describe the events at the hospital.
8. In what way does Jason Taverner interact with Cheerful Charley and what is Kathy's reaction?
9. What is ironic about the police's admonishment of Jason Taverner's comment to Ruth Rae?
10. What motivation does Kathy have for wanting to help Jason Taverner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Philip K. Dick’s novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Philip K. Dick’s novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. What message is Philip K. Dick sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Philip K. Dick’s novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
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