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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. While visiting with Tagomi in Chapter 5, what does Baynes feel regret about?
(a) The cultural prejudice.
(b) A political action.
(c) A public speech.
(d) An airline conversation.

2. What does Baynes make clear to Tagomi in Chapter 5 about Mr. Yatabe's visit?
(a) It must be recorded.
(b) It must be brief.
(c) It must be secret.
(d) It must be uncompensated.

3. What does Rita, Wyndam-Matson's girlfriend, suggest that he should do to handle the problem which he learned about from Calvin?
(a) Murder the supplier.
(b) Bribe the police.
(c) Escape to Canada.
(d) Confront the accuser.

4. What does Childan do as a result of what he has learned from the university in Chapter 4?
(a) He seeks reimbursement from his supplier.
(b) He hires an armed night watchman.
(c) He files an anonymous police report.
(d) He decides to close his shop.

5. Frank sees the Edfrank Jewelry business as, perhaps, a way of ____________.
(a) Improving racial relations.
(b) Getting Juliana back.
(c) Avenging Wyndam-Matson.
(d) Remaining socially anonymous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Childan learn about the carrier ship Syokaku from the Tokyo Herald?

2. How does the discussion between Joe and Juliana, inspired by Abendsen's novel, leave Juliana feeling?

3. What do phrases like "the fussy, brisk voice," "barely polite," and "deliberately mispronounced his name" initially tell us about Tagomi's character?

4. How does Ramsey feel about Tagomi's request that he select the gift for Baynes?

5. What does Tagomi receive that makes him become suspicious of Baynes's real intentions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do we learn about the German impact on television production and programming in Chapter 6? Of what significance is this to the storyline?

2. What new insight does Chapter 5 give the reader into the character of Baynes? What might this be foreshadowing?

3. The voice of the radio quotes from The Bible, "What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?" How does this apply to what we have witnessed of this world in Chapter 1?

4. How do Childan's and Frank's perception of the Germans and the Japanese differ? What motivates these views?

5. Bigotry is common and accepted without question in the former United States of Philip Dick's world. How does the author reveal this? What seems to be the reason behind this?

6. In Chapter 1, the author introduces the characters of Mr. Tagomi and the Kasouras as clients of Childan through the juxtaposition of conversations he has with each. What do we learn about each as a result? How do these clients compare?

7. What does the reader learn about the fate of the Slavs and Africans? In what way is Dick continuing to keep his "fiction" tied to reality? What comment might he be making about some of the realities of true USA history?

8. While at a special session about the possible candidates for the new German Chancellor, Tagomi becomes ill and leaves. What factors cause him to take the chance of being shamed by his abrupt departure?

9. When told by the university that "there is a regular industry turning out these fakes," Childan gets angry and insists that this is only a rumor. Why is he in such denial even when the proof lies before him?

10. How is the mystery client that comes to place an expensive order with Childan described? What appears to be his real purpose? Who can you assume this client to be, and why is he doing this?

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