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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Anne's hovel on Mars?
(a) Strawberry Point.
(b) Flax Back Spit.
(c) Chicken Pox Prospects.
(d) Mother Tongue Gardens.

2. What object is Anne carrying when she arrives at the entrance to Barney's hovel?
(a) A lantern.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) A torch.
(d) A candle.

3. What is the name of Leo's dwelling on Earth?
(a) Winnie-the-Pooh Acres.
(b) Harry-ther-Dirty Dog.
(c) Little-ther-Tug.
(d) There-ther-Toot.

4. Anne asks Barney to obtain some of what object for her?
(a) A pair of eyeglasses.
(b) A rosary.
(c) Chew-Z.
(d) A Bible.

5. Allen Faine offends Barney by marveling that Barney has what already?
(a) A name.
(b) A girl.
(c) A hovel mate.
(d) A garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Leo fires Barney, Leo tells Barney that which character will be taking Barney's position?

2. What is NOT something Palmer Eldritch names as an element of P.P. Layouts that Chew-Z will need?

3. In what type of activity do Barney and Anne engage in right after she turns down his proposal of marriage?

4. Before releasing Leo for a period of time, Palmer Eldritch tells Leo that he will take what action if Leo decides not to join him?

5. Anne tells Barney that she has come to see him because she is feeling what emotion since arriving on Mars?

Short Essay Questions

1. What special right is provided to colonists who willingly agree to emigrate?

2. Discuss two ways in which the themes of science and religion intermingle within Leo's interactions with Palmer Eldritch.

3. What extreme action does Barney undertake immediately after his request for a job from Palmer Eldritch is denied?

4. What connection does Leo draw between his sighting of a Proxer standing over Dr. Smile and the nature of Palmer Eldritch?

5. What is demonstrated about Philip K. Dick's intended audience within the scene of the Can-D Great Books experience at Chicken Pox Prospects?

6. Discuss Barney's wishy-washy attitude surrounding his decision to work for Palmer Eldritch after being fired by Leo.

7. In what way does Barney feel complicit in the desperate attitudes of the colonists?

8. How and when had Palmer Eldritch acquired his distinctive teeth?

9. What is the price difference between Can-D and Chew-Z?

10. How is irony present in the narrative's events that occur immediately after Barney's call to the UN draft board?

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