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

2. Why couldn't Runciter help Joe up the stairs?
(a) Pat would have demanded an explanation.
(b) None of these.
(c) Pat would have killed him.
(d) Pat would have seen him.

3. Why did Archer's Drugstore close?
(a) Ed Archer skipped town.
(b) Ed Archer came down with throat cancer.
(c) Wilma Archer took poor Ed for everything he owned in the divorce.
(d) Ed Archer died.

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

5. Who does Joe meet on the way to the Matador?
(a) Glen Runciter.
(b) None of these.
(c) Ella Runciter.
(d) Wendy Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only perceivable problem according to Joe?

2. Where is the amphetamine dispenser?

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

4. What is happening to Al's perception?

5. Who was waiting for Joe in his room?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can Joe offer some clarity to the group?

3. What made Mr. Bliss do a double take?

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

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

6. Why couldn't Joe kill Jory?

7. What things does Joe learn in this chapter that solves the mystery about their adversary, and the force working against them?

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. What was Joe's impression of the Mortuary?

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