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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 consumes their half life.
(b) He cannibalizes their flesh.
(c) He plagues the mind causing each half lifer to take their own half life.
(d) He consumes their soul.

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

3. What was exhausting to Jory?
(a) Stopping Runciter from breaking through.
(b) Maintaining the existence of 1992.
(c) Creating the miles and miles of countryside from New York to Des Moines.
(d) Convincing the group that Pat was responsible.

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

5. Why did Joe realize that it would be impossible to make the transition to live in this time frame?
(a) They were too aware of the future.
(b) They knew too much.
(c) They had already talked to openly about the future.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is strange to Joe regarding Pat?

2. What was in the package in Joe's mail box?

3. What does Joe ask for on a whim?

4. Why can't Joe find any Ubik in Des Moines?

5. What is the oldest Joe thinks they could have regressed and gotten away with it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

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

5. How does Pat look at Joe?

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

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

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

9. What point does Joe make that gives Runciter pause for thought?

10. Why couldn't Joe kill Jory?

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