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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 racist term does Joe hear used that he had never heard before?

2. What did the Ubik revert to?

3. Who was it that stood in Don Denny's place?

4. What was Joe's reward for climbing the stairs?

5. What method of payment doesn't Joe offer the druggist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Sammy offer that confirms that Pat is the one destroying each of them, one at a time?

2. What is Runciter trying to do according to A?

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

4. What was odd about Joe and Al's visit to Baltimore?

5. What was Joe's impression of the Mortuary?

6. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

7. What is a common experience among half-lifers?

8. What made Mr. Bliss do a double take?

9. How did Joe try to turn the carton of Ubik into a spray can?

10. How does Pat look at Joe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Pat as a primary antagonist in the story. What clues point to her as being the main force opposing the group of Runciter Associates? In what regard does she seem like the perfect adversary for Joe?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the concept of human rights on Terra. How would it be different than the concept of human rights here on Earth? What kinds of things would have to change in our society for rights to be as liberal as they are on Terra?

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