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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. To whom is Barney referring when he tells Anne that the last person he had talked to who had taken Chew-Z had said it had been what kind of experience?
(a) The best experience of his life.
(b) A total life-changer.
(c) The worst experience of his life.
(d) The only time he would ever try it.

2. On the plaque commemorating Palmer Eldritch's death at the hands of Leo, what year does it say the event occurred?
(a) 2016.
(b) 1979.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2036.

3. Anne tells Barney that all she knows is religious faith and that does not equip her for understanding what topic?
(a) Physics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Relative morality.
(d) Psychiatry.

4. What object is Anne carrying when she arrives at the entrance to Barney's hovel?
(a) A lantern.
(b) A candle.
(c) A torch.
(d) A flashlight.

5. What is Anne's reaction when Barney walks her to her hovel and asks her to marry him?
(a) She runs away.
(b) She shakes her head.
(c) She cries.
(d) She laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Only what body can legally route Barney back to Earth?

2. Anne reports that while she had been inhabiting Perky Pat with the female citizens of Barney's hovel, they had all been engaging in what activity?

3. Anne tells Barney that she has come to see him because she is feeling what emotion since arriving on Mars?

4. Allen Faine offends Barney by marveling that Barney has what already?

5. For what reason does Leo fire Barney?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is demonstrated about Philip K. Dick's intended audience within the scene of the Can-D Great Books experience at Chicken Pox Prospects?

2. How is irony present in the narrative's events that occur immediately after Barney's call to the UN draft board?

3. What extreme action does Barney undertake immediately after his request for a job from Palmer Eldritch is denied?

4. What terms does Palmer Eldritch present to Leo just before Leo tries to strangle him?

5. What connection does Leo draw between his sighting of a Proxer standing over Dr. Smile and the nature of Palmer Eldritch?

6. What is the price difference between Can-D and Chew-Z?

7. Discuss the reasons behind Barney's decision to stop fighting the emigration draft.

8. In what way does Barney feel complicit in the desperate attitudes of the colonists?

9. In what way are Barney's experiences with Anne on Mars significant?

10. What occurs during Barney’s first experience under the influence of Chew-Z?

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