Characters
He’s a bounty hunter for the San Francisco Police Department whose job is to "retire" rogue androids.
Who is Rick Deckard?
In Do Android Dreams of Electric Sheep? What is the major conflict that left radioactive dust on Earth, causing humans to leave Earth.
What is World War Terminus?
Iran uses this device to control her emotional state.
What is a Penfield mood organ (pp. 1-4)?
Rick owns one of these electric animals.
What is a sheep?
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, this is used by bounty hunters to distinguish androids from humans. It measures empathy through blushing and other involuntary physiological responses.
What is the Voight-Kampff test?
This character owns a real horse and is annoyed by Rick’s visit.
Who is Bill Barbour (p. 6)?
In what city do the events of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? unfold?
San Francisco
Androids are often detected using this test.
What is the Voigt-Kampff test (pp. 23-4)?
When Deckard was going past one of San Francisco's largest pet stores, what was the animal in the main display case that he saw?
What is an ostrich?
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, this name is used for the latest model of Android released by the Rosen Association?
What is the "Nexus-6"?
This "special" man lives alone, works for an electric animal repair service, and struggles with loneliness and cognitive decline.
Who is John Isidore?
Most humans have emigrated off-world to this colony.
What is Mars?
The mood organ number Rick programs for himself in the morning.
What is 888 (the desire to watch TV, no matter what's on (p. 4)?
During Deckard’s tense visit to the Rosen Association, this animal was kept under heavy guard and was introduced as a recent corporate acquisition by a young woman.
Who is Bill the Raccoon?
These beings are hunted down by bounty hunters like Rick.
What are andys (androids)?
This character programs herself to feel despair, believing it's important to experience authentic human emotion—even if it’s unpleasant.
Who is Iran Deckard?
Because of radiation, many people are classified with this derogatory term if they remain on Earth.
What is a "special" or "chickenhead?"
The name of the android model that’s supposedly so advanced it might beat the Voigt-Kampff test.
What is the Nexus-6?
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Why does Deckard hate his electric sheep?
He is jealous of others that have real animals, he knows that the electric sheep does not know he exists, it's like an android.
The number of escaped Nexus-6 androids Rick is assigned to retire.
What is six?
This woman, introduced at the Rosen Association in Seattle, claims to be human but becomes the subject of a Voigt-Kampff test that casts doubt on her humanity.
Who is Rachael Rosen?
Though much of humanity has left Earth, those who remain live in decaying cities filled with dust and silence. What haunting condition is caused by radioactive fallout, gradually degrading both body and mind?
What is the effect of radioactive dust leading to genetic degradation and mental decline (often resulting in being labeled a "special" or "chickenhead")?
Since the Voigt-Kampff test measures empathic response, it relies on involuntary physical reactions to specific questions. What bodily functions does the test monitor to detect an android?
What are capillary dilation and fluctuation of the pupil (in the eye)?
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, this is the cost of the mouse that Rick Deckard's neighbor recommended for him to buy if he wanted a real animal that was cheap.
What is a "25$?"
While the Nexus-6 models are intellectually superior to previous androids, Rick worries they might defeat the Voigt-Kampff test. What irony underlies the need to retire androids who, by passing the test, might demonstrate a level of humanity society demands—but denies them?
What is the irony that androids may be "too human" to detect—demonstrating empathy or awareness that should protect them, yet it is precisely this that condemns them?