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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a way in which Leo describes Zoe?
(a) Feminine.
(b) With no makeup.
(c) With short hair.
(d) Tough-looking.

2. When Leo calls Barney to tell him about the developments around Chew-Z, Barney muses that this is the first time he has seen his employer take what action?
(a) Cry.
(b) Go quiet.
(c) Scream.
(d) Collapse.

3. While inhabiting Walt together, Sam and Tod are disappointed when Perky Pat takes what action?
(a) Puts on a sweater.
(b) Starts to make a sand castle.
(c) Dives into the ocean.
(d) Kisses Walt.

4. What method does Leo reluctantly admit to using in his quest to locate Palmer Eldritch?
(a) The help of his ex-wife.
(b) The help of one of his Pre-Fash precogs.
(c) The help of his own precog abilities.
(d) The help of Chew-Z.

5. While Richard is Emily's current husband, who is Emily's former husband?
(a) Leo.
(b) Barney.
(c) James.
(d) Palmer Eldritch.

6. What object has been surgically embedded into Leo's tongue?
(a) A computer.
(b) A mood organ.
(c) A poison dart.
(d) A tracking device.

7. At what location does Barney awake at the beginning of the book?
(a) In his own apartment.
(b) In Dr. Smile's office.
(c) In Leo's office.
(d) In an unfamiliar apartment.

8. Richard ventures to P.P. Layouts in an attempt to sell to the firm what type of objects made by Emily?
(a) Screenplays.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Pots.
(d) Faberge eggs.

9. How many people can inhabit Perky Pat at a time while under the influence of Can-D?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) An infinite number.
(d) Two.

10. Which two colonists wake up from the effects of Can-D before the others and rush off to have sex?
(a) Helen and Norm.
(b) Norm and Fran.
(c) Sam and Fran.
(d) Helen and Sam.

11. For what purpose does Impy White contact Leo at his office?
(a) To ask Leo for payment.
(b) To tell Leo that he is fired.
(c) To ask Leo if he knows a man named Barney.
(d) To tell Leo that the colonists had rejected the shipment of Can-D.

12. A UN soldier armed with what type of weapon blocks Leo from getting into Palmer Eldritch's hospital room?
(a) A bayonet.
(b) A knife.
(c) A rifle.
(d) A ray gun.

13. In what California city does Walt work?
(a) Los Gatos.
(b) Sunnyvale.
(c) Alameda.
(d) Palo Alto.

14. Who does Leo point to as "the man responsible for the seizure of this last shipment of Can-D" (17)?
(a) Ned Lark, the U.S. Surgeon General.
(b) Ned Lark, a CIA agent.
(c) Ned Lark, the head of the FBI.
(d) Ned Lark, the chief of the UN Narcotics Bureau.

15. What kind of an artist is Richard's wife Emily?
(a) A painter.
(b) A dancer.
(c) A writer.
(d) A potter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tod and Norm get in an argument, to what location does Norm angrily tell Tod to return?

2. For what reason can Barney not foresee the outcome of his draft notice, even though he is a precog?

3. Richard lives in what state?

4. On what heavenly body does Chew-Z NOT have an ad satellite?

5. In what city does Barney live at the start of the novel?

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