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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many telepaths did Mrs. Wirt say she was authorized to pay for?

2. How many days did Mr. Runciter say that it would take to run the preliminary tests?

3. What was the day in which the half-lifers were publicly honored?

4. Who interrupted Ella and Glen's conversation?

5. What is the first thing that Joe suspects?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Joe want to clean his conapt?

2. Under what terms is Pat hired?

3. What typo is in this chapter?

4. Why did Runciter immediately want to pack everything up?

5. Why does Joe Chip believe that he was selected to keep the prudence organizations going?

6. What does Joe guess was going to happen to all of them and why?

7. What is a half-life?

8. How does Mr. Runciter find out who Ms. Wirt's employer is, and why is this information valuable to him?

9. What kinds of things does Ms. Wirt explain is on the map?

10. How does Ella explain half-life, and why did Ella believe that he would never fully understand it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the product Ubik. What kind of product is it? In layman's terms, what does it do? What is the objective of its regression? Why doesn't it serve Joe at all as a Liver and Kidney Balm?

Essay Topic 2

If the sensation of touch is a sense that is entirely related to the body, why is it that the people in half life experience physical sensations like touch? Provide an explanation as to why they wouldn't feel as though they were in a dream.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the creation of Ubik in this book by the people in half life. How is it possible to create something from a half life form? How could this have been possible with Jory's interference?

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