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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard lives in what state?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Connecticut.

2. What is Perky Pat's last name?
(a) Oblique.
(b) Pantheon.
(c) Christensen.
(d) Eltdritch.

3. What is Richard's last name?
(a) Bulero.
(b) Bayerson.
(c) Fugate.
(d) Hnatt.

4. What document is contained within "the familiar elongated blue-green envelope" (4)?
(a) Barney's draft notice.
(b) Roni's draft notice.
(c) Leo's draft notice.
(d) Emily's draft notice.

5. What does Barney predict will be the official "slogan" (59) of Chew-Z?
(a) Be choosy. Chew Chew-Z.
(b) Be cool. Chew Chew-Z.
(c) Chew-Z or Bust.
(d) Easy as A-B-C. Chew Chew-Z.

6. On what heavenly body does Chew-Z NOT have an ad satellite?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Io.
(c) Titan.
(d) Mars.

7. In the world of Perky Pat, it is perpetually what day of the week?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Saturday.

8. Another passenger in Richard's commute car tells him that a ship from outside the Sol system has crashed where?
(a) On Pluto.
(b) On Saturn.
(c) On Mars.
(d) On Venus.

9. What does Barney do when he finds that he does not remember the name of the woman with whom he wakes up?
(a) He asks Dr. Smile.
(b) He looks at the woman's identification while she is in the shower.
(c) He asks the woman.
(d) He calls Leo.

10. Leo asserts that the Perky Pat layouts are no good to the colonists without what?
(a) The Axstar videotape.
(b) The sun.
(c) Chew-Z.
(d) Can-D.

11. When people are unconscious and under the influence of Can-D, what drips out of their mouths?
(a) A thin trickle of brown syrup.
(b) A thin trickle of dark molasses.
(c) A thin trickle of yellow wax.
(d) A thin trickle of red saliva.

12. On what planet does The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch begin its narrative?
(a) Mars.
(b) Earth.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Jupiter.

13. How does Barney suggest Leo gain access to Palmer Eldritch?
(a) By posing as a reporter.
(b) By posing as a UN operative.
(c) By posing as a doctor.
(d) By posing as a nurse.

14. When Tod and Norm get in an argument, to what location does Norm angrily tell Tod to return?
(a) To hell.
(b) To Tod's hovel.
(c) To Tod's garden.
(d) To church.

15. Where had Palmer Eldritch gone about a decade prior to the narrative's beginning?
(a) To the Axiom system.
(b) To Antarctica.
(c) To the Prox system.
(d) To Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an element used to describe Barney?

2. What is P.P. Layouts purchasing with its "enormous yearly tribute[s]" (15)?

3. Over what group of people does Barney ask for absolute power during his episode of bargaining with Leo?

4. For what company does Walt work?

5. A UN soldier armed with what type of weapon blocks Leo from getting into Palmer Eldritch's hospital room?

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