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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. In what year was the character Shura born?

2. Which room does Alice see first when Shura shows her his farm?

3. What is Shura's last name in the novel?

4. Where does Shura meet Peter Mille?

5. What was the occupation of both of Shura's parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the bad traits Alice describes of herself and Shura in Chapter 28?

2. From whose point of view is Chapter 16 told? What does this character detail?

3. What drug does Shura synthesize in Chapter 9? How is this substance described?

4. Describe Alice's actions at the Valentine's Day party in Chapter 19.

5. Where does Shura travel following his wife's death? What drug experience does he encounter there?

6. What drug experience does Alice share with Sam in Chapter 17?

7. What do Alice and Shura reveal to one another while under drugs in Chapter 22? What drug?

8. What exposition does Shura reveal following his wife's death?

9. What is Shura's relationship to Dr. Andrew Walker Scott?

10. With whom does Alice speak of Shura with in Chapter 23? What does she learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define the term "nucleotides," and discuss how they function in the body. How do psychedelics affect this functioning? What is Shura's theory of nucleotides?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the emotional risk and emotional connection experienced by the characters during their explorations with phenethylamines. How do they justify the risks? Would you?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the setting of Pihkal, A Chemical Love Story. How does this setting inform the actions and events in the novel? How does the setting change in the course of the text?

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