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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. To whom does Alice write a letter and give Shura the option of sending it?

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

3. What does Alice imagine herself as while on DESOXY?

4. One experimenter of the drug 2C-B describes colors of rose and what permeating the room?

5. Who becomes uncommunicative under the drug on Shura's birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Alice imagine herself as under the influence of DESOXY?

2. What does Shura write of his earliest experiences with 2C-B in The Chemical Story Part One?

3. What event takes place in Chapter 34?

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

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

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

7. What happens on the trip in Chapter 40 to make Shura feel aged?

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

9. Who writes a letter to Ursula in Chapter 29? Why?

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

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 2

Describe the substances 2C-B and DOM. What experiences do the characters have with each of these? What are their chemical makeup, dosage, and duration?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the components of the drug LSD. Where and when did LSD originate? When is Shura's first experience with the drug? How does he describe it?

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