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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. For what reason does Leo fire Barney?
2. Allen Faine tells Barney that Leo's surgeons could do all but which of the following for Barney?
3. What is Leo's reply when Palmer Eldritch asks him if he is willing to retire?
4. Allen Faine offends Barney by marveling that Barney has what already?
5. After being fired, Barney reflects that "it takes a certain amount of" what "to face yourself and say with candor, I'm rotten. I've done evil and I will again" (113)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How and when had Palmer Eldritch acquired his distinctive eyes?
2. In what way does Barney feel complicit in the desperate attitudes of the colonists?
3. What information does Leo learn from Dr. Smile after he strangles Palmer Eldritch?
4. What connection does Leo draw between his sighting of a Proxer standing over Dr. Smile and the nature of Palmer Eldritch?
5. What extreme action does Barney undertake immediately after his request for a job from Palmer Eldritch is denied?
6. How and when had Palmer Eldritch acquired his distinctive teeth?
7. Discuss how the theme of despair arises within the novel's portrayal of Barney.
8. What reason does Barney state when he is asked by Icholtz why he wants to chew Can-D?
9. How does Barney's first Chew-Z experience support Philip K. Dick's overall message about human happiness?
10. What is the price difference between Can-D and Chew-Z?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are often used within Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in order to create vivid depictions of characters’ emotions, motivations, and psychological underpinnings. Choose three novel scenes in which Dick uses sensory details to develop characterization, and discuss the effect these tools have on the meaning of the text.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and how does Philip K. Dick get this message across to the reader?
Essay Topic 3
Would Philip K. Dick’s novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch be classified as a dystopian novel? Why or why not?
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