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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Roni's position at P.P. Layouts where she works with Barney?

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

3. What is NOT a way in which Sam describes feeling when he realizes that a dose of Can-D is wearing off?

4. To what location do people in the narrative have to go if they are drafted?

5. Richard ventures to P.P. Layouts in an attempt to sell to the firm what type of objects made by Emily?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what evidence does Barney point when trying to convince Leo that he can "beat" (21) his draft notice to Mars?

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

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

4. For what reason can Barney not see into his own future?

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

6. Who or what is Dr. Smile?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the interplay between the resolution of Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch and one of its main messages. How does the author make connections between these two elements and how does their juxtaposition help Philip K. Dick get across a main message of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and how does Philip K. Dick get this message across to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Write a critical essay about Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the depth of its female characters, its depiction or omission of female empowerment, its treatment or ignorance of misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the novel.

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