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

2. Where do the boys plan on going?

3. What was the date on the paper at Joe's con-apt?

4. Who died in this chapter?

5. What color was the drugstore?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

2. How does Pat look at Joe?

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

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

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

6. What is wrong with Joe's theory, regarding how to stay alive and stop from being worn out?

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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