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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 was exhausting to Jory?

2. What is going to be the bigger problem?

3. Who is the church official speaking at the funeral?

4. What did the person waiting in Joe's room give him?

5. Why did Archer's Drugstore close?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Ella help Joe?

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

10. How does Pat look at Joe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the product Ubik. What kind of product is it? In layman's terms, what does it do? What is the objective of its regression? Why doesn't it serve Joe at all as a Liver and Kidney Balm?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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