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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 does Kathy tell Jason just after they leave the restaurant together?
(a) She tells him that she is homeless.
(b) She tells him that she loves him.
(c) She tells him that she is a virgin.
(d) She tells him that she is an informant.

2. What position does Herb Maime have within the police state?
(a) Police admiral.
(b) Deputy assistant.
(c) Police captain.
(d) Assistant to Felix Buckman.

3. What major commonality do Jason Taverner and Heather Hart share?
(a) They are both sevens.
(b) They are both insomniacs.
(c) They are both sixes.
(d) They are both ordinaries.

4. Inspector McNulty tells Jason Taverner that Jack had died in what manner?
(a) At a forced labor camp.
(b) From an illness.
(c) Due to toxic waste.
(d) A quibble accident.

5. How much money does Jason Taverner have on him when he awakes in an unfamiliar place?
(a) 1,000 dollars.
(b) 5,000 dollars.
(c) 500 dollars.
(d) 100 dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Jason Taverner?

2. Kathy insists that she never takes what action in relation to her husband Jack?

3. Heather Hart warns Jason Taverner about what danger waiting outside the television studio?

4. In what year does the narrative of Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said begin?

5. To what part of Los Angeles does the clerk take Jason Taverner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are "bleps" (52) and how do they enter the narrative?

2. What epiphany about celebrity does Jason have in Chapter 8 and why?

3. What mistake on the part of the police leads to Jason Taverner's release?

4. What is ironic about the police's admonishment of Jason Taverner's comment to Ruth Rae?

5. Name the jobs of the following people in Chapter 1: Jason Taverner, Heather Hart, Al Bliss, Bill Wolfer, and Mory Mann.

6. What is the connection between Jason and Marilyn Mason and how does he feel when she calls him?

7. What reward does Kathy demand in return for her promise not to inform on Jason Taverner?

8. In what way does the narration of Chapter 7 differ from the narration present in Chapters 1 through 6?

9. Discuss Philip K. Dick's use of allusion in concert with the depiction of Felix Buckman.

10. What or who is Cheerful Charley?

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