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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. Who is the church official speaking at the funeral?

2. What did Joe ask Pat for?

3. What, according to the person in Joe's hotel room, is the limit of Pat's talent to go back in time?

4. What does Jory mean by eating people?

5. Who died in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Runciter trying to do according to A?

3. What does Don Denny go to do, and what does he tell Pat to do in his absence?

4. What things does Joe learn in this chapter that solves the mystery about their adversary, and the force working against them?

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

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

7. What different views do the people of the time frame that Joe has found himself in hold that are contrary to the ones Joe and his coworkers hold?

8. What is a common experience among half-lifers?

9. What things did Joe feel were an improvement when they had regressed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Pat and Jory. How are they alike? How are they different? What kind of nature does each character have? How do they compliment each other well?

Essay Topic 2

If the sensation of touch is a sense that is entirely related to the body, why is it that the people in half life experience physical sensations like touch? Provide an explanation as to why they wouldn't feel as though they were in a dream.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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