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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 Shura's son's name?

2. In Chapter 8, Shura synthesizes three different isomers of what?

3. Where does the protagonist go for a conference in Chapter 15?

4. With whom is the protagonist having an affair in Chapter 15?

5. When is Alice invited to meet with the spiritual teacher, where she meets Shura?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alice write about in Chapter 21 of her sons?

2. What drug is Shura manufacturing in Chapter 6? How?

3. Describe Alice and Shura's experience with DOM in Chapter 25.

4. What are Shura's conclusions of MDMA in Chapter 12?

5. With whom does Alice speak of Shura with in Chapter 23? What does she learn?

6. What does Shura reveal to Alice about Ursula in Chapter 20? What is her response?

7. When Alice and Sam leave her apartment in Chapter 17, where do they go?

8. What news does Shura receive from Ursula in Chapter 24? What does he tell Alice?

9. What were Shura's education plans following high school? How did they turn out?

10. From whose point of view is Chapter 16 told? What does this character detail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the relationship of Alexander Shulgin with the DEA. What is the DEA's position on Pihkal, A Chemical Love Story? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of love, sexuality, and relationships in the novel. How do the three principle characters of the love triangle influence each other's actions?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the emotional risk and emotional connection experienced by the characters during their explorations with phenethylamines. How do they justify the risks? Would you?

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