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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 much did Mr. Runciter offer her to join the company?

2. Who was it that Joe was infatuated with?

3. How many minutes did Joe ask for when he realized a woman was there?

4. What kind of coin did Mr. Runciter find himself viewing on Fifth Avenue?

5. How many telepaths were possibly in the workplace of Miss Wirt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What typo is in this chapter?

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

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

4. In what state does Joe find Wendy?

5. Why does Glen believe that he has figured out where the lot of Hollis' best PSI's have gotten to?

6. How did the author describe Hollis?

7. Why can't Pat put things back entirely the way they were?

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

9. How did Joe think that Stanton Mick's voice sounded?

10. Why is there speculation that the prudence organization could be a racket?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Jory as a deity. In what way is he a god in the half life world? In what way is he like the god of the underworld? In what ways does he closely resemble a god?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Provide reasons for the decay of the life around a half-lifer. Why isn't the decay relative to the person in half life? How was it that the entire group of inertials experienced exactly the same decay?

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