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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 the holiday being celebrated by a party hosted by Alice and Shura in the end of the book?

2. While tripping in Chapter 30, Shura explains to Alice his theory on what?

3. What psychologist does Alice call during her spiritual crisis?

4. Where does Shura go with Alice and her family for dinner in Chapter 41?

5. Who has not arrived as expected in Chapter 32?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Shura go in Chapter 40? What drug does he take there and what effect does it have?

2. What letter does Shura receive in Chapter 29? How does he feel about it?

3. What does Shura say of a mental fugue in Chapter 37?

4. What drug do Shura and Alice take in Chapter 35? What effect does it have?

5. How does Aleph-4 change in its effects between eight milligrams and seven?

6. What event takes place in Chapter 34?

7. What does Shura reveal to Alice in Chapter 32? What does he believe about Dolph?

8. How do the visual effects change per dosage of Aleph-2?

9. What is the lecture that Shura gives about in Chapter 42?

10. What is Ursula's reaction to the letter in Chapter 30?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the setting of Pihkal, A Chemical Love Story. How does this setting inform the actions and events in the novel? How does the setting change in the course of the text?

Essay Topic 2

Define the term "nucleotides," and discuss how they function in the body. How do psychedelics affect this functioning? What is Shura's theory of nucleotides?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the character of Alice in Pihkal, A Chemical Love Story. How old is Alice when her character is first introduced? What are her character's principle objectives? What are her actions?

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