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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 is the first sign that the police have arrived to capture Jason from Ruth Rae's place?
2. How many people at one time are generally using the phone grid at once?
3. The phone grid links what element of the users' humanity?
4. What kind of drug does Jason Taverner take willingly from Alys?
5. Inspector McNulty narrows down Jason Taverner's location to an apartment building wing with how many units?
Short Essay Questions
1. What element of Felix Buckman's personality does Alys says she hates the most?
2. In what way does the character of Felix Buckman demonstrate the dangers of authoritarian police states?
3. During Jason Taverner's first interaction with Alys, what knowledge does he lack about Alys that the reader does not lack?
4. Who expresses strong disagreement with Jason Taverner's beliefs about family?
5. Felix Buckman shows Jason Taverner a photograph of which of his own family members?
6. What tool does Felix Buckman regularly use in his dealings with sixes?
7. What surveillance method had failed to attach properly to Jason Taverner, according to Alys?
8. What thought causes Jason Taverner to accept Alys's invitation to the Buckmans' home?
9. What do Alys's clothes symbolize within the narrative?
10. Into whom does Jason run on his way out of the police station?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze Philip K. Dick’s novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 2
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 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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