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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 is happening to Al's perception?

2. What color was the drugstore?

3. What is the oldest Joe thinks they could have regressed and gotten away with it?

4. What object did Joe and Al buy from the supermarket?

5. What, according to the person in Joe's hotel room, is the limit of Pat's talent to go back in time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What different views do the people of the time frame that Joe has found himself in hold that are contrary to the ones Joe and his coworkers hold?

6. Why does Ella help Joe?

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

8. What things did Joe feel were an improvement when they had regressed?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the society of Terra from a social viewpoint. What kinds of products or services would rate the highest for its popularity? Why? What kinds of services could be provided, and how would this jeopardize our normal way of life?

Essay Topic 2

The major motion picture "Matrix" gained a lot of inspiration from this novel. Compare Ubik to the Matrix. What similarities are present? What are some major differences? How is Neo like Joe? How are the two characters different?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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