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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 the name of the Hotel the group is staying at?

2. What did Joe get to want more than anything?

3. What is the recommended restaurant?

4. Who hasn't died in this chapter?

5. Who was going to send Joe a car?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Pat look at Joe?

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

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

10. How is Don Denny intuitive in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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