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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the pilot that might be interested in making the trade with Joe?
(a) Jasperson.
(b) Jisperson.
(c) Jesperson.
(d) Jamison.

2. What racist term does Joe hear used that he had never heard before?
(a) Chink.
(b) Spic.
(c) Nigger.
(d) Flathead.

3. What kind of car was loaned to the group while they were in Des Moines?
(a) A Chrysler.
(b) A Willy's-Knight.
(c) A Pierce-Arrow.
(d) A Pontiac.

4. Why did the pilot want the bottle of Ubik?
(a) He thought that he would barter it elsewhere.
(b) He wanted it to make him feel better.
(c) It reminded him of his grandmother.
(d) It had alot of gold flakes inside suspended in mineral oil.

5. Why didn't Joe want to get in the elevator?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) It was the last thing that Al had seen before he died.
(c) Both of these.
(d) It looked too old to be functioning.

6. Where is the amphetamine dispenser?
(a) In the hall outside the consultation lounge.
(b) In the waiting room.
(c) There is no amphetamine dispenser.
(d) Outside beside the beverage dispensing machine.

7. What did Joe compare the appearance of his skin to?
(a) Decaying leather.
(b) A dry, cooked chicken.
(c) Patent Leather.
(d) A dry, cooked turkey.

8. What object did Joe and Al buy from the supermarket?
(a) A tape recorder.
(b) An audio recorder.
(c) A cell phone.
(d) A new vidphone.

9. Who does Denny compare Joe to?
(a) Wendy Wright.
(b) Edie Dorn.
(c) Tito.
(d) Runciter.

10. What realization did Joe figure out about Hell?
(a) It was his destiny to go there.
(b) It was cold, ice cold.
(c) It was a lonely place.
(d) He was doomed to spend eternity in Hell.

11. Who was going to send Joe a car?
(a) Ms. Jones.
(b) Mr. Jericho.
(c) Mrs. Bliss.
(d) Ms. Bliss.

12. Why can't Joe find any Ubik in Des Moines?
(a) There wasn't Ubik in that time frame.
(b) Jory controls what is in his world.
(c) Jory doesn't want him to have Ubik,
(d) All the Ubik's in Des Moines are regressed to the liver and kidney balm.

13. What isn't natural about being in Cold pac?
(a) That they are dying off before their time allows them to.
(b) All of these.
(c) That there is a force trying to kill them.
(d) That this isn't the normal progression of half-life.

14. What does Jory mean by eating people?
(a) He consumes their soul.
(b) He plagues the mind causing each half lifer to take their own half life.
(c) He consumes their half life.
(d) He cannibalizes their flesh.

15. What is happening to Al's perception?
(a) He seems to be regressing.
(b) Things are getting younger.
(c) Things are getting older.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the pilot want to take Joe to Des Moines?

2. What did Joe ask Pat for?

3. Who hasn't died in this chapter?

4. Why didn't Joe take the elevator?

5. How long had Glen tried to reach his people in cold pac?

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