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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. Why didn't Joe take the elevator?
(a) None of these.
(b) He wanted the exercise of the stairs.
(c) He feared he would see what Al saw.
(d) He thought it might revert out of existence.

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

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

4. What method of payment doesn't Joe offer the druggist?
(a) Cheque.
(b) Credit card.
(c) Cash.
(d) None of these.

5. Whose writing was it on the note?
(a) Wendy Wrights.
(b) Runciter's.
(c) Pats'.
(d) Joes'.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Joe get to want more than anything?

2. How many years will the group have to go ahead in order to regain the correct time frame?

3. What did Joe see that made him tell Joe not to get in the elevator?

4. Where is the third message to Joe in this chapter?

5. Why did Archer's Drugstore close?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pat look at Joe?

2. What was odd about Joe and Al's visit to Baltimore?

3. What different views do the people of the time frame that Joe has found himself in hold that are contrary to the ones Joe and his coworkers hold?

4. What is a common experience among half-lifers?

5. How did Joe try to turn the carton of Ubik into a spray can?

6. What was the only thing that Joe decided would resist regression before anything else?

7. What is wrong with Joe's theory, regarding how to stay alive and stop from being worn out?

8. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

9. What message was scrawled on the wall of the men's bathroom? How did Al interpret this?

10. What did Don Denny say about Joe's appearance, and why is this worrisome?

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