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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who phones Deckard at the end of the chapter?

2. What does Roy do when Rick kills Irmgard?

3. What does Irmgard ask Isidore to do?

4. What does Iran find out?

5. Which android does Rick retire first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Philip K. Dick is said to be a writer existentialist fiction with Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? one of his major works.

1) What is existentialist fiction?

2) What elements of existentialist fiction can you see within the novel's structure?

3) In what ways is Rick Deckard a typical existentialist character?

Essay Topic 2

Dick is recognized as one of the great American writers from the fifties and sixties, yet Science Fiction is not always a genre people look for examples of great literature. Why do you think Dick used this genre to communicate his views? What are these views? Do think these views are more counter culture than mainstream? Do you think he could of communicated his views as openly in another genre?

Essay Topic 3

John Isidore is one of the major characters in the book, but seems to present little conflict or problems. In fact the plot would change little of Isidore was not there. If this is the case what does John Isidore add to the book? Does Dick make him such such a passive main character on purpose? Why do you think it matters that he is a 'special'.

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