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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. What floor was Glen's office on?

2. What did the tattoo on Pat's arm say?

3. How many telepaths did Mr. Runciter say that he wanted to send to this location?

4. Why might Ella not like being put in solitary?

5. What did Joe blame for the death of Wendy Wright?

Short Essay Questions

1. What typo is in this chapter?

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

3. How does Joe find out that a woman was in the suite with him the previous night?

4. Provide reasons as to why Joe Chip is stressed in this chapter.

5. Why would Ella not like to be in isolation?

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

7. Why couldn't Pat have given Joe the money before he tested her?

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

9. Why is it a sound business idea that Mr. Runciter sells his services to Ms. Wirt?

10. How does Joe get money from the Moratorium owner?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Although this book is set in 1992, explain some technological differences that existed in Ubik and the real world of 1992. What kinds of things are still the products of science fiction? What kinds of things are reality now?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the novel from a religious point of view. How many things in the novel express a lack of religion on the part of the author? What kind of things could allude to a religion?

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