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

2. What color was the drugstore?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Creme.

3. What was Joe's reward for climbing the stairs?
(a) The privacy of his room.
(b) He would be alone at last.
(c) The key to his room.
(d) Pat would go away.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of car was loaned to the group while they were in Des Moines?

2. Who is paying for everything?

3. Why won't Herbert von Vogelsang move people out of the reach of Jory?

4. Who hasn't died in this chapter?

5. What does Al think will help?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Al know that he was next to die?

2. Why does Ella help Joe?

3. What was Joe's impression of the Mortuary?

4. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

5. What is Runciter trying to do according to A?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What according to the advertisement does Ubik actually do?

10. How is Pat taking the fact that everyone is slowly being killed off?

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