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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Palmer Eldritch suggests that Barney take on the form of "a rotting corpse of a run-over" (207) what type of animal in a ditch?
(a) A horse.
(b) A dog.
(c) A goat.
(d) A gluck.

2. What is odd about the person's appearance who enters Leo's office with the Mars trip requisition papers?
(a) The person is bent over in two.
(b) The person has no life within their eyes.
(c) The person is sobbing hysterically.
(d) The person is displaying all three of Palmer Eldritch's stigmata.

3. To what location do people in the narrative have to go if they are drafted?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Venus.
(c) Saturn.
(d) Mars.

4. By the end of the novel, which character has been taken over by the being called Palmer Eldritch?
(a) Barney.
(b) Leo.
(c) Roni.
(d) Emily.

5. While imprisoned inside Palmer Eldritch's created Chew-Z world, Leo decides to kill the real Palmer Eldritch for what reason?
(a) Because he and Chew-Z pose great threats to humanity.
(b) Because he knows he will be ruined financially if he does not.
(c) Because Palmer Eldritch has made a fool of him.
(d) Because he believes it is what is supposed to happen, according to his precogs' predictions.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason had Leo and his wife been asked to leave their conapt building?

2. What is Sigma 14-B?

3. Leo realizes that the fantasy worlds that Chew-Z induces are inside what object?

4. What object is Anne carrying when she arrives at the entrance to Barney's hovel?

5. What is Leo's reply when Palmer Eldritch asks him if he is willing to retire?

(see the answer key)

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