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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. Kathy insists that she never takes what action in relation to her husband Jack?
2. What does Heather Hart do for a living?
3. In what vice does Jason Taverner engage, while Heather Hart does not?
4. Jason Taverner had arranged for what type of event to take place between Columbia Records and Marilyn Mason?
5. Inspector McNulty calls Jason Taverner by what incorrect last name?
Short Essay Questions
1. What crucial objects are not within Jason's possession when he wakes up disoriented?
2. Name the jobs of the following people in Chapter 1: Jason Taverner, Heather Hart, Al Bliss, Bill Wolfer, and Mory Mann.
3. What mistake on the part of the police leads to Jason Taverner's release?
4. What are "bleps" (52) and how do they enter the narrative?
5. What or who is Cheerful Charley?
6. In what way does Jason Taverner interact with Cheerful Charley and what is Kathy's reaction?
7. What reward does Kathy demand in return for her promise not to inform on Jason Taverner?
8. What is the connection between Jason and Marilyn Mason and how does he feel when she calls him?
9. What evidence does Felix Buckman provide for his claim to Alys that she could never get him fired from his position as police general?
10. How is foreshadowing used within scenes involving Kathy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How are the topics of romantic relationships, love, and sex treated within the novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said and how does their treatment relate to the novel's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss Philip K. Dick's choice to tell the story of Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said using a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Philip K. Dick’s intended effects on the reader?
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