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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 did Joe ask Pat for?
(a) A cigarette.
(b) A sturdy hand.
(c) None of these
(d) A stiff drink.

2. What kind of car was awaiting Joe?
(a) A 1933 Bedford Lorry.
(b) A 1936 Ford Convertible Sedan.
(c) A 1939 Lasalle convertible.
(d) A 1939 Tatra Saloon.

3. What did the pilot want to take Joe to Des Moines?
(a) An interesting story for the journey.
(b) To know what his business was in Des Moines.
(c) The twice reverted bottle of Ubik.
(d) Joe to sing him a song.

4. Where do the boys plan on going?
(a) New York.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Back to Zurich.
(d) Des Moines.

5. What did Joe see that made him tell Joe not to get in the elevator?
(a) An elevator from the 1940s.
(b) An elevator from 1910.
(c) None of these.
(d) No elevator at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Ubik representative?

2. What, according to the person in Joe's hotel room, is the limit of Pat's talent to go back in time?

3. What was different about the Carton that they had picked up?

4. Who does Joe now suspect is at work to destroy them?

5. Who hasn't died in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Don Denny go to do, and what does he tell Pat to do in his absence?

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

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

7. How does Pat look at Joe?

8. 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?

9. What things did Joe feel were an improvement when they had regressed?

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

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