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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose does Leo say he has come to see Palmer Eldritch in the hospital?
(a) Out of sympathy.
(b) To conduct business.
(c) To beg for forgiveness.
(d) To get an autograph.

2. Barney muses that one day he will live like Leo, rather than living full-time in his city in what?
(a) 180 degree heat.
(b) 120 degree heat.
(c) 20 degree cold.
(d) 95 degree heat.

3. What is said to be Palmer Eldritch's job?
(a) Pre-Fash consultant.
(b) Interplan industrialist.
(c) Coal miner.
(d) Public relations specialist.

4. For what reason can Barney not foresee the outcome of his draft notice, even though he is a precog?
(a) Because he is tired.
(b) Because Leo has forbidden him.
(c) Because he is not important enough to be in the news.
(d) Because precogs cannot foretell their own futures.

5. 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 calls Leo.
(c) He looks at the woman's identification while she is in the shower.
(d) He asks the woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what type of show is Walt's television set tuned in order to wake him up each morning?

2. In what year had Richard's collection of vinyl records been melted by the heat?

3. Where had Palmer Eldritch gone about a decade prior to the narrative's beginning?

4. On what heavenly body does Chew-Z NOT have an ad satellite?

5. What had been Roni's position when she worked at a foreign branch of P.P. Layouts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Narcotics Control Bureau use Palmer Eldritch's crash landing in an attempt to trap Leo?

2. How do Barney's personal entanglements direct his actions over the course of the exposition stage?

3. What weapon does Leo have with him at all times and how is it used?

4. What does Leo surmise about Emily's pots while speaking to Barney about them?

5. Discuss Dick's treatment of the co-mingling themes of loyalty and self-interest.

6. What information does Barney find out about Leo's situation by using his precog abilities?

7. What types of messages does the narrative send about corporate culture and how does Philip K. Dick get these messages across to the reader?

8. In whose apartment does Barney awake at the start of the narrative and why?

9. With what information is precog Roni able to provide Leo in regards to Palmer Eldritch?

10. For what items does Barney trade his information about Palmer Eldritch's future whereabouts?

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