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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 Joe does suggest that Abendsen's living in a place called The High Castle reflects?
(a) Cowardly escaping adoring readers.
(b) Safely getting a world perspective.
(c) Vainly treating himself as royalty.
(d) Wisely seeking a peaceful retreat.

2. Who does Rita note her parents said would have won WW II if he had lived?
(a) Lincoln.
(b) Churchill.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Roosevelt.

3. What are Frank 's intentions when he returns to the factory?
(a) To pick up his paycheck.
(b) To protect his friend's job.
(c) To apologize to his boss.
(d) To get his tools back.

4. How does the simile, "like a little animal, not important, but smart" describe the way Joe acts?
(a) Quietly and spontaneously.
(b) Wildly and spontaneously.
(c) Alertly and instinctively.
(d) Politely and rationally.

5. To what does Tagomi attribute Ramsey' s tanning by sun lamp?
(a) His desire to fit in.
(b) His desire to be outside.
(c) His desire to improve his health.
(d) His desire to meet pretty women.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frank's memory of the landlord Omuro being beheaded by the Japanese Mission because of profiteering off ex-servicemen say about the Japanese?

2. What is Frank Frink worrying about when the reader first meets him?

3. What does Baynes say they must wait for before he and Tagomi can meet?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Chapter 1 introduces the setting of the novel as being in San Francisco twenty years after World War II. What signs are there that there has been a different outcome to this war from the history as we know it?

2. 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?

3. Childan says of the Kasouras, "these new young people, of the rising generation, who did not remember the days before the war or even the war itself, - they were the hope of the world." What is meant by this? How do the Kasouras appear to prove him right?

4. 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?

5. What appears to be the source of Juliana's depression at the start of Chapter 3? Why might this be considered to be ironic?

6. One aspect of science fiction is that there is an element of the real world in it. What similarities can be seen in World War II and its aftermath as related in the High Castle and the history as we know it?

7. 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?

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. In Chapter 5, Tagomi tells Baynes that many books like the I Ching and The Bible are alive. What does he mean by this? How does this appear to be supported in the text up to the close of this chapter ?

10. One way an author can develop character is through descriptions of physical appearance and behavior. What descriptions does the author give of Wyndam-Matson? How do these descriptions reflect the way he runs his business in regard to such things as his treatment of employees, production, and such?

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