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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. Who is the boss of the police agency?
(a) Gabriel Sherman.
(b) Michael Shannon.
(c) Anders Helmbrecht.
(d) Felix Blau.

2. What drug is "grown, processed, and distributed by a hidden subsidiary of P.P. Layouts" (15)?
(a) Chew-Z.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Can-D.
(d) Heroin.

3. What is NOT a way in which Sam describes feeling when he realizes that a dose of Can-D is wearing off?
(a) Afraid.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Weak.
(d) Bitterly sickened.

4. P.P. Layouts pays "an enormous yearly tribute to" (15) whom?
(a) Wall Street brokers.
(b) Palmer Eldritch.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) The United Nations.

5. Leo tells Felix that a layout is of no use without what?
(a) The additive.
(b) The mins.
(c) The human will.
(d) The Prox antidote.

Short Answer Questions

1. When someone inhabits Walt, what type of car does Walt drive?

2. What special gift do Roni and Barney share?

3. Where had Roni worked before coming to work with Barney?

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

5. What document is contained within "the familiar elongated blue-green envelope" (4)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Impatience (Impy) White and what news does she deliver to Leo when she calls him?

4. Who is Palmer Eldritch and why is he in the newspapers?

5. Discuss the personal entanglements afflicting Barney over the course of the exposition stage.

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

7. What are the differences between Can-D and Chew-Z?

8. What action does Leo take after leaving the UN-affiliated hospital and why?

9. For what reason does Leo not meet with Palmer Eldritch when he goes to the UN-affiliated hospital?

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

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