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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. How do Androids usually escape to earth?

2. Which android does Bryant suggest Deckard go after first?

3. What is the television program promoting?

4. What does Borogrove ask the woman on the phone?

5. What does Eldon ask Deckard to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Rick question his beliefs?

2. In chapter 13 what do think Stratton is trying to say about the reason androids came to earth?

3. Could Rick and Bryant be considered as cold as the androids?

4. How does Pris's character show her to be an android?

5. In chapter 16, do you think Rachael shows feelings that the reader could construe as human feeling?

6. How does Rick role change briefly in this chapter?

7. Describe Isidore's workplace and its role in society.

8. What do you think is the most important revelation in this chapter?

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

10. In chapter 12 what do you think Munch's Scream symbolizes in the context of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Towards the end Deckard starts to hallucinate that he is firstly seeing Mercer and secondly that he has merged with him.

1) Why do you think Mercer is so important to Deckard? Does Deckard share these feeling with any other characters?

2) What do you think triggers Deckard's hallucinations and why?

Essay Topic 2

Rick seems to have a complicated relationship with his wife and at one point talks about running off with Rachael. Do you think Rick loves his wife? Why do you think he wants to go back to her at the end?

Essay Topic 3

Dick wrote Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in the 1960s. Think about the world and in particular America during this period and discuss whether the book reflects what was happening.

1) What are the books themes? Do they relate to America's political or social environment? If so how?

2) Is Dick's dystopian vision a direct result of what was happening in the world at that time? Have any of Dick's fears come true?

3) Do such elements as the androids, mood organs and empathy boxes symbolize elements of life in '60s America?

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