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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. How much money does Felix Buckman want to bet Herb that when they locate Jason Taverner, it will result in a breakthrough for the police force?
2. What kind of drug does Jason Taverner take willingly from Alys?
3. Alys tells Jason Taverner that the bomb planted on him could be detonated by what type of signal emanating from the police station?
4. Felix Buckman attempts to get a leg up on Jason Taverner by claiming to be a what?
5. How many people at one time are generally using the phone grid at once?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the phone grid within the narrative functions.
2. What does Felix Buckman conclude about why he feels such antipathy toward Alys?
3. What does Alys say is the reason that she wants to help Jason Taverner?
4. What element of Felix Buckman's personality does Alys says she hates the most?
5. Who expresses strong disagreement with Jason Taverner's beliefs about family?
6. What is ironic about Felix Buckman's disapproval of another character's feelings about family?
7. Into whom does Jason run on his way out of the police station?
8. To what metaphorical object does Felix Buckman liken his newfound tool for dealing with sixes?
9. What tool does Felix Buckman regularly use in his dealings with sixes?
10. Felix Buckman shows Jason Taverner a photograph of which of his own family members?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Philip K. Dick’s messages about guilt and responsibility within Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Focus especially on events such as Ruth Rae's imprisonment, which only takes place because Jason Taverner selfishly seeks sanctuary in Ruth Rae's apartment when he knows he is being hunted by the police.
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
William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Philip K. Dick’s novel Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the novel.
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