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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. What action does the dog take when it reaches the monument to Leo's defeat of Palmer Eldritch?
(a) It sits in front of the monument and whines.
(b) It paws at the monument.
(c) It touches the monument, which then disappears.
(d) It urinates on the monument.

2. Allen Faine offends Barney by marveling that Barney has what already?
(a) A girl.
(b) A garden.
(c) A name.
(d) A hovel mate.

3. What object appears under Leo's desk, causing him to realize that he is still imprisoned within the Chew-Z world?
(a) A gluck.
(b) A cybernetic arm.
(c) An unnamed creature.
(d) Dr. Smile.

4. What form is Palmer Eldritch taking in the Chew-Z world when he tells Leo to retire?
(a) Palmer Eldritch.
(b) A gluck.
(c) Dr. Smile.
(d) A little girl.

5. Before releasing Leo for a period of time, Palmer Eldritch tells Leo that he will take what action if Leo decides not to join him?
(a) He will hurt Leo's girlfriends.
(b) He will ruin Leo's business.
(c) He will turn Leo into a phantasm.
(d) He will kill Leo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Leo see in the distance in the Chew-Z world just before he meets the two evolved Terrans?

2. What is NOT something Palmer Eldritch names as an element of P.P. Layouts that Chew-Z will need?

3. Palmer Eldritch tells Leo that what percentage of possible futures contain the monument to Leo's defeat of Palmer Eldritch?

4. How does Leo feel upon seeing the monument dedicated to his own killing of Palmer Eldritch?

5. What are the symptoms that Barney will display once he has taken the toxin at the direction of Leo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Barney state when he is asked by Icholtz why he wants to chew Can-D?

2. How and when had Palmer Eldritch acquired his distinctive teeth?

3. How does Anne change as a character after arriving at the colony?

4. Describe how the theme of selflessness arises during Leo's imprisonment at the hands of Palmer Eldritch.

5. Discuss the reasons behind Barney's decision to stop fighting the emigration draft.

6. In what way does Barney feel complicit in the desperate attitudes of the colonists?

7. How and when had Palmer Eldritch acquired his distinctive teeth?

8. What connection does Leo draw between his sighting of a Proxer standing over Dr. Smile and the nature of Palmer Eldritch?

9. Discuss how the theme of despair arises within the novel's portrayal of Barney.

10. What terms does Palmer Eldritch present to Leo just before Leo tries to strangle him?

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