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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tod and Norm get in an argument, to what location does Norm angrily tell Tod to return?
(a) To hell.
(b) To church.
(c) To Tod's hovel.
(d) To Tod's garden.

2. What is NOT a way in which Leo describes Zoe?
(a) With short hair.
(b) With no makeup.
(c) Tough-looking.
(d) Feminine.

3. What is NOT a way in which Sam describes feeling when he realizes that a dose of Can-D is wearing off?
(a) Bitterly sickened.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Weak.
(d) Afraid.

4. Barney predicts that Palmer Eldritch will get what body to approve Chew-Z for mass consumption?
(a) The ATF.
(b) The UN Narcotics Control Bureau.
(c) The FDA.
(d) The CIA.

5. What object has been surgically embedded into Leo's tongue?
(a) A poison dart.
(b) A mood organ.
(c) A computer.
(d) A tracking device.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Perky Pat's last name?

2. What is P.P. Layouts purchasing with its "enormous yearly tribute[s]" (15)?

3. What document is contained within "the familiar elongated blue-green envelope" (4)?

4. For what company does Walt work?

5. Where had Roni worked before coming to work with Barney?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leo surmise about Emily's pots while speaking to Barney about them?

2. Who is Palmer Eldritch and why is he in the newspapers?

3. What are the differences between Can-D and Chew-Z?

4. Who is Icholtz and why does he make contact with Richard after Barney turns down Emily's pots at P.P. Layouts?

5. What action does Leo take after leaving the UN-affiliated hospital and why?

6. Though Barney's draft notice lists Mars, how many other planets and moons have the U.N. populated with drafts thus far and why?

7. In whose apartment does Barney awake at the start of the narrative and why?

8. Who is Impatience (Impy) White and what news does she deliver to Leo when she calls him?

9. In what ways are the themes of religion and science intermingled within scenes of Leo's growing panic about the fate of his Can-D business?

10. How is the marriage between Fran and Norm used to demonstrate the way in which no colonist can exist happily and independently without the use of Can-D?

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