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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. What color is Jason Taverner's aura, according to Kathy?

2. Kathy tells Jason Taverner that her own aura is what color?

3. Jason Taverner decides that he needs to avail himself of what type of woman?

4. In what vice does Jason Taverner engage, while Heather Hart does not?

5. Heather Hart had been arrested one year prior to the novel's opening for what transgression?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the events at the hospital.

2. In what way does Jason Taverner interact with Cheerful Charley and what is Kathy's reaction?

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

4. How does the theme of delusion enter the narrative in a scene involving both Kathy and Jason Taverner?

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

6. What crucial objects are not within Jason's possession when he wakes up disoriented?

7. What evidence does Felix Buckman provide for his claim to Alys that she could never get him fired from his position as police general?

8. How is foreshadowing used within scenes involving Kathy?

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

10. What is the setting in which Jason wakes up just after he is aware of being in the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sensory details are used frequently by Philip K. Dick in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are effectively used and discuss how the sensory details help with Philip K. Dick’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 2

Determine Philip K. Dick’s message within the novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said regarding the power of the individual.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said and analyze Philip K. Dick’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

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