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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 does Jory mean by eating people?

2. What picture remained on the wall?

3. What is the name of the Hotel the group is staying at?

4. What is the name of the newscaster?

5. Why didn't Joe take the elevator?

Short Essay Questions

1. What message was scrawled on the wall of the men's bathroom? How did Al interpret this?

2. What is Glen's thoughts regarding the Prudence organizations?

3. What things does Joe learn in this chapter that solves the mystery about their adversary, and the force working against them?

4. What according to the advertisement does Ubik actually do?

5. Why does Ella help Joe?

6. How can Joe offer some clarity to the group?

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

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

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

10. What does Don Denny go to do, and what does he tell Pat to do in his absence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Joe and Wendy as a couple. How did they compliment each other? Use evidence from the book. Provide an explanation as to why Joe didn't ask Wendy out.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of Stanton Mick. Although he is represented as being a humanoid bomb, he is also represented as being solicitous by putting the crew of the prudence organization in half life. Explain Stanton Mick's role in Ubik.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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