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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. Who does Hank ask Fred to monitor closely?

2. Why does Arctor have to edit himself out of the tapes?

3. What state does Fabin live in?

4. What tipped the men off to the fact Fred had a hempishere split?

5. What does Barris want to write a best selling book about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Thelma become a reminder to the three men about how straights are their foes?

2. How does Arctor use Donna?

3. How do Arctor and his roommates become paranoid when they arrive home?

4. Why does Barris not trust Arctor?

5. What does Charles remember from the time he and Jerry were roommates?

6. Why does Arctor think someone may have tampered with his car?

7. How does Barris make cocaine from the Solarcaine?

8. How does Arctor make sure his roommates are away from the house for the whole day?

9. Why did Fred become an undercover narcotics agent?

10. How does Charles plan to get Donna into bed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare drug research in the 1970s to drug research today. How would the book's depiction of drugs change if Dick wrote it today?

Essay Topic 2

Dick's view of future earth is what is called a dystopian vision. Discuss what is meant by dystopian? How does Dick show his dystopian vision in his settings and characters?

Essay Topic 3

Philip K. Dick greatly influenced modern literature and, in particular, science fiction. Choose a book written after the novel that you think was influenced by Dick and discuss there similarities in terms of

a) plot

b) character

c) themes

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