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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. What is Childan in the business of selling?
(a) Historic American artifacts.
(b) Japanese made souvenirs.
(c) Abandoned real estate.
(d) Local modern art.

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

3. What does McCarthy tell Frank he has a plan to get for their business?
(a) Shop space from an uncle.
(b) Financing from their former boss.
(c) Materials from an old friend.
(d) Approval from the Japanese Ministry.

4. After recognizing the significance of Joe's tattoo, what does Juliana realize Joe was part of in World War II?
(a) The Axis Army.
(b) The Neutral zone.
(c) The Allied Army.
(d) The Red Cross.

5. How does Wyndam-Matson's feel about "historicity"?
(a) It is meaningless.
(b) It is contradictory.
(c) It is inescapable.
(d) It is hurtful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is discovered about his merchandise that causes Childan to lose a major deal?

2. What does Juliana feel the Germans have made little advancement in despite having gone to Mars?

3. According to Tagomi, what aspect of the German massacre of the Jews caused the Japanese to refuse to participate?

4. How would you describe the feelings attached to Juliana's and Joe's memories of "living under the Nazis"?

5. In Chapter 6, Tagomi is now convinced that Baynes really is ___________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Compare the reactions of Childan, Calvin and Wyndam-Matson to the discovery of the fake guns. What point does the author seem to be making about the business world as he sees it?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. How does Baynes react to Tagomi's apartment? How do his thoughts and reactions to Tagomi's possessions and comments further define his character?

5. In Chapter 3, what suggestion is the author making by putting Hitler in a sanitarium and then noting that the present world in this novel is the product of his mind? What similarities are seen in the thoughts of Juliana and Baynes to support this view?

6. What do we learn about Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy? How does Juliana feel about this novel as compared to Joe?

7. Wyndam-Matson and his girlfriend get into a long discussion about historicity. What is historicity? What point does Wyndam-Matson make about it? How is this idea supported in the novel?

8. 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?

9. In Chapter 4, Frank speaks of Gresham's Law. What does this law suggest? How does Childan's reaction to the discovery about some of his merchandise reflect his understanding of the importance of this law?

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

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