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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 were possibly in the workplace of Miss Wirt?

2. Who remembered the manager's name of the Beloved Brethren Moratorium?

3. What image did Joe get in his head at the end of the chapter?

4. What is a moratorium in this book?

5. In what language was the music playing?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Under what terms is Pat hired?

3. How did Mr. Runciter reveal that he knew who the person was that was financing Ms. Wirt's enterprise?

4. What is an Artiforg and what does it do?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examine the repeated references to cigarettes in this novel. How does this relate to the culture of the day in which the novel was written? How have things changed in regards to the references to smoking in literature?

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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