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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 compare the appearance of his skin to?

2. Who was it that stood in Don Denny's place?

3. What is the name of the Ubik representative?

4. What is the name of the place where Runciter was brought after the Beloved Brethren?

5. What isn't natural about being in Cold pac?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the only thing that Joe decided would resist regression before anything else?

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

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

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

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. What according to the advertisement does Ubik actually do?

7. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Pat as a primary antagonist in the story. What clues point to her as being the main force opposing the group of Runciter Associates? In what regard does she seem like the perfect adversary for Joe?

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