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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 did Joe get to want more than anything?

2. How did Pat seem, watching Joe?

3. What is the recommended restaurant?

4. What was different about the Carton that they had picked up?

5. Why couldn't Runciter help Joe up the stairs?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Don Denny say about Joe's appearance, and why is this worrisome?

3. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

4. How did Al know that he was next to die?

5. What did this deterioration make Joe feel and why is this a problem?

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

7. How is Pat taking the fact that everyone is slowly being killed off?

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

9. What point does Joe make that gives Runciter pause for thought?

10. How does Pat look at Joe?

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

Explain how Joe's confidence increases throughout the novel. What are the circumstances that increase this confidence? How does he choose to exercise this newfound confidence?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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