Ch. 5
In this chapter, Rick Deckard administers a test to determine whether a young woman is an "andy" (i.e. an android). Whom does he test? (If you cannot recall her name, half-credit will be rewarded for identifying who she is and what she does for work.)
Rachael Rosen
Along with her uncle Eldon Rosen, she works for the Rosen Association.
In Chapter 2, John Isidore hears the sound of a television blaring from an apartment below him and decides to visit it. What does he bring as a welcoming gift, in Chapter 6, when knocks on the door of the unit.
An old cube of margarine.
Who is Hannibal Sloat?
He is John Isidore's boss at Van News Pet Hospital.
When Rick Deckard returns to the San Francisco Hall of Justice after visiting the Rosen Association Headquarters in Seattle, he learns that "a Soviet cop from the WPO" (p. 68) wants to tag along as Deckard does his job. Why does the Russian want to accompany him?
He wants to learn more about the Nexus-6 types.
True or false, while claiming to be German, Luba Luft speaks with an American accent.
True.
After Rick Deckard gets booked into the Mission Street Hall of Justice, he is allowed one call. Whom does he call?
Why is Rick Deckard sent to the Rosen Association Building Seattle?
To test their Nexxus-6 types and determine whether these androids can be identified through standard profiles tests, as the company maintains.
Who is Buster Friendly?
"Earth's most knee-slapping TV comic" (p. 51).
What is the first "malfunctioning animal" (p. 56) that John Isidore picks up on his work day?
An electric cat.
Who is Max Polokov?
Polokov is the android who injured Deckard's colleague Dave Holden and the first of the six androids he sets out to "retire."
As Rick Deckard adminsters the Voigt-Kampff test to Luba Luft, he continually runs into one particular challenge as he questions her.
Her vocabulary is very limited and she keeps misunderstanding Deckard's questions, leading him to wonder whether "Luba Luft's semantic fog had purpose" (p. 83).
A police officer named Garland pulls Rick Deckard into his office to question him. What does Garland reveal to Deckard?
That like Max Polokov and Luba Luft, Police Inspector Garland is also on Deckard's list of six androids to locate and retire.
When Rick Deckard arrives at the Rosen Association Building, what animal does he notice in the company's possession?
For 100 extra points, is this animal real or electric?
An owl.
The owl turns out to be fake.
Describes the person who answers the door of the apartment on the lower after John Isidore knocks?
She is a half-dressed young woman who strikes him as odd for not knowing who Buster Friendly is and not having an empathy box.
When the animal starts to wheeze and show signs of sickness (malfunctioning animals are designed to appear ill), what does John Isidore do?
He tries looks for the control panel and battery terminals, but can find neither. (All answers that indicate an attempt on his part to fix the animal just as a mechanic would fix a broken machine are acceptable.)
Who is Sandor Kadalyi?
For 300 points, what is the identify of the person who is impersonating Kadalyi?
He is a Soviet cop from the the WPO who wants to observe Deckard as he pursues rogue androids.
The person who identifies himself as Kadalyi is actually Max Polokov?
A sexual pevert.
True or False, is Police Inspector Garland one of the androids on Deckard's list?
Yes.
Does Rick Deckard identify the young woman who takes his profile test as an android?
For 200 extra points, what is the precise name of this test?
For 300 extra points, what types of questions does Deckard ask the test subject?
Yes.
The test is called the Voigt-Kampff test.
He asks questions that would evoke empathy for animals among humans.
When John Isidore meets the person who lives below. they are at first standoffish with him, but they eventually warm up -- that is, until he reveals what about himself, which leads the person to treat him disrespectfully?
For 200 extra points, what is this person's name?
He inadvertently reveals that he is a "special, or "chickenhead.".
She first identifies herself as Rachael Rosen, but then tells him she is Pris Stratton. If you answer either of these, you get 200 additional points; if you answer both, you get 300 additional points.
It turns out to be real and is dead.
Polokov's attempt to shoot Rick Deckard with a laser fails because the bounty hunter activated a device that "phases out laser emanation" (p. 74). What does Polokov do in response?
For 300 extra points, how does Deckard kill Polokov after switching on a device that neutralizes lasers?
Polokov responds, "Then I'll have to break your puny pencil neck" and attempts to strangle Deckard.
Deckard shoots him in the head with a .38 magnum.
After Luba Luft turns the tables -- and a laser tube -- on Rick Deckard, she calls the police. What happens next?
A police officer arrives and claims that he has never heard either Rick Deckard or his boss, Harry Bryant. The office, or "harness bull" (p. 85), takes Deckard to the police station, but it's not the Hall of Justice he knows on Lombard. Instead, it's in the Mission.
Who is Phil Resch?
He is a bounty hunter from the Mission Street Hall of Justice who advocates for testing police personnel to determine whether they are androids.
How do the representatives of the Rosen Association attempt to deceive Rick Deckard?
For 300 extra points, does their plan work? Why not?
Their plan works at first, but Deckard administers one last test to the subject and determines conclusively that she is an android.
What is "kipple"?
"Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself" (p. 52).
What does Hannibal Sloat make John Isidore do after the animal he brings to the hospital stops working?
For 300 extra points, what does the owner's wife ask his company to do?
He makes him call the owner and inform him that the cat is dead.
She wants them to make an electric cat modeled after the dead one so that she can trick her husband into thinking his pet is not dead.
Who is Luba Luft?
She is an opera singer, supposedly from Germany, whom Deckard is order to investigate as a possible android.
Mozart's The Magic Flute.
After the lab report on Max Polokov's corpse concludes that he was an android, what do Deckard and Resch decide to do next?
Administer tests to one another and to Garland to determine if any of them are androids.