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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. What is the motto of the Rhipidon Society?

2. What does Phil say only he and Christopher know?

3. Why does Sophia prefer it if people sit down to talk to her?

4. What is the name of the philosopher who talks about a cat playing in the yard?

5. What gets robbed in West LA?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mini say about VALIS?

2. How does Eric get a third eye?

3. How does Phil react to Fat's assertion that he will travel around the world to find the fifth savior?

4. What happens in the opera Parsifal?

5. What does Eric tell Horselover Fat on the phone?

6. What does Kevin discover about Nixon in this section?

7. What is Sophie's opinion on Eric and LInda?

8. What did Sophia tell Kevin about his dead cat?

9. What do Phil and Fat discuss at the Sombrero Bar?

10. What do the group think is strange about Ferris F. Fremount's name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine Fat's exegesis.

1. What is Fat trying to explore in his exegesis?

2. Why is Fat's exegesis so important to him?

3. How does Fat's exegesis help him to find Sophia?

Essay Topic 2

What does Maurice make Fat see about himself? How do Maurice's words affect Fat?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Fat come back in the last few chapters of the book? What does it say about Phil's state in the last few chapters that Fat leaves for Europe?

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