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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 Barney's reply when Leo asks Barney where he will go now that he has been fired?

2. For what reason does Allen Faine come to Mars?

3. Allen Faine tells Barney that Leo's surgeons could do all but which of the following for Barney?

4. While imprisoned inside Palmer Eldritch's created Chew-Z world, Leo decides to kill the real Palmer Eldritch for what reason?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the theme of selflessness arises during Leo's imprisonment at the hands of Palmer Eldritch.

2. How and when had Palmer Eldritch acquired his distinctive teeth?

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

4. What information does Leo learn from Dr. Smile after he strangles Palmer Eldritch?

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

6. What special right is provided to colonists who willingly agree to emigrate?

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

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

9. How does Barney's first Chew-Z experience support Philip K. Dick's overall message about human happiness?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within the novel and what is Philip K. Dick's message regarding these themes?

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

Sensory details are often used within Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in order to create vivid depictions of characters’ emotions, motivations, and psychological underpinnings. Choose three novel scenes in which Dick uses sensory details to develop characterization, and discuss the effect these tools have on the meaning of the text.

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