Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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50 free Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel follows a bounty hunter through one long day on a poisoned Earth, where owning a living animal is the surest sign of decency and the machines he hunts look exactly like people. It asks what makes someone human and never quite lets its hero off the hook. This quiz covers the book the way a class or a reading group would: Rick Deckard's targets and the tricks they play on him, the strange faith of Mercerism, the empathy test, John Isidore and his unexpected house guests, and the ending in the wasteland. It also looks at Dick himself and at how the story changed on its way to becoming Blade Runner. It suits students revising the novel, science fiction readers, and film fans curious about what the screen version kept and what it left out. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Blade Runner moved the action to Los Angeles, but in which city is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? set?
San Francisco
San Francisco is where Rick Deckard hunts androids for the police, in a city half emptied by fallout and emigration. The film swapped it for a dystopian Los Angeles.
Q 02In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what does Rick Deckard use to tell androids from humans by their empathy?
The Voigt-Kampff test
The Voigt-Kampff test measures involuntary reactions to questions, most of them about harm to animals. An android's flinch arrives a fraction of a second too late.
Q 03Who played bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford won the part on the strength of Star Wars and warm praise from Steven Spielberg. Decades later he came back as Deckard in Blade Runner 2049.
Q 04In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which live animal does Rick Deckard buy with his bounty for three androids?
A goat
A goat of the Nubian breed swallows his entire $3,000 bounty as a mere down payment, leaving him with heavy monthly instalments.
Q 05Which word did Blade Runner invent to replace the androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Replicants
Replicants grew out of a chat between screenwriter David Peoples and his daughter, a biochemist, who brought up the way cells go about replicating.
Q 06Which euphemism do bounty hunters in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? use for killing an android?
Retire
Retire is the police term, and each android Rick Deckard removes this way earns him a bounty of $1,000.
Q 07The fugitive Nexus-6 androids of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? have escaped to Earth from which colony?
Mars
Mars is sold to emigrants as a fresh start with a free android servant, yet the runaways describe it as old, desolate and unfit to live on.
Q 08Which animal, thought extinct, does Rick Deckard find in the desert at the end of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A toad
A toad is among the creatures most sacred to the prophet Mercer, so Deckard carries it home in triumph. His wife then finds a small control panel in its belly.
Q 09In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which mood does Iran Deckard deliberately schedule on her mood organ?
Depression
Depression is the setting Iran dials on purpose, because she thinks it unhealthy to feel nothing about the emptiness of a ruined Earth.
Q 10Which director left a slow-moving Dune production and turned Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into Blade Runner?
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott filmed a script by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Philip K. Dick died before the release but was pleased by a reel of effects footage screened for him.
Q 11Which Nexus-6 android planned the group's escape in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? while posing as a pharmacist?
Roy Baty
Roy Baty also hoped that mind-altering drugs could give androids something like the shared religious experience humans enjoy. Blade Runner gave his surname a second T.
Q 12Which rare bird does the Rosen Association offer Deckard as a bribe in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
An owl
An owl makes a priceless bribe because owls were the first creatures to die in the fallout. Eldon Rosen later admits that the bird on offer is a machine.
Q 13In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which rare creature do the androids mutilate to test how many legs it needs?
A spider
Q 21Which fellow bounty hunter in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? fears he is an android until a test clears him?
Phil Resch
Phil Resch turns out to be human, which troubles Deckard more than the opposite result would have, because Resch plainly enjoys killing.
Q 22Which police inspector in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? finds his own name on Deckard's list of targets?
Garland
Garland runs a sham police station staffed by androids, hidden in plain sight in the city. Once exposed he pulls a laser on Deckard and is shot dead.
Q 23In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the android Polokov ambushes Rick Deckard while disguised as what?
A Soviet policeman
A spider found by John Isidore loses its legs one by one to a pair of scissors, because the androids suspect it could manage just as well on four.
Q 14Which fugitive in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is the same android model as Rachael Rosen and looks identical?
Pris
Pris Stratton runs at Deckard on the stairs with her arms open, and only at the last second does he grasp that she is not Rachael.
Q 15Which talk-show host in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? goes on air to denounce Mercerism as a fraud?
Buster Friendly
Buster Friendly is somehow on television and radio at once for most of every day, and the androids hiding with Isidore reveal that he is one of them.
Q 16How does Rachael Rosen destroy the prized animal Rick Deckard has just bought in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Pushes it off the roof
Rachael pushes it off the roof of Deckard's own building while he is away hunting, only hours after she has spent the night with him.
Q 17In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what is Wilbur Mercer forever doing in the visions his followers share?
Climbing a hill
Climbing a hill under a hail of thrown rocks is Mercer's endless ordeal. Believers gripping an empathy box feel every stone and can come away with real wounds.
Q 18The Rosen Association of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became which android-building company in Blade Runner?
Tyrell Corporation
Tyrell Corporation took the place of the family-run Rosen firm, and its founder Eldon Tyrell kept the first name of the novel's Eldon Rosen.
Q 19In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, what does J. R. Isidore call the useless junk that seems to multiply by itself?
Kipple
Kipple, in Isidore's telling, always drives out whatever is not kipple, so an empty apartment slowly fills with rubbish unless somebody keeps fighting it.
Q 20Which animal owned by his neighbor Bill Barbour does Rick Deckard envy in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A horse
A horse, a pregnant Percheron mare, is Barbour's pride, and he turns down Deckard's offer to buy the foal on a payment plan.
A Soviet policeman calling himself Kadalyi joins Deckard in his hovercar as an observer, and an odd-looking laser gives him away just before the two men struggle.
Q 24Which Mozart opera is the android Luba Luft performing when Deckard finds her in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is a favourite of Deckard's, so he sits and listens to Luft sing the part of Pamina before he goes backstage to test her.
Q 25Whose paintings is Luba Luft viewing when bounty hunters catch her in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch's exhibition holds Luft's attention, and she asks Deckard for a print of Puberty. He buys her the whole book of reproductions with his own money.
Q 26Whose shooting by a Nexus-6 hands Rick Deckard the case in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dave Holden
Dave Holden, the department's top bounty hunter, had already dealt with two of the runaways when a laser left him in hospital with a spinal injury.
Q 27To which city does Rick Deckard fly to test the Rosen Association's own androids in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Seattle
Seattle is home to the Rosen headquarters, where the family tries to discredit his empathy test by having him examine Rachael without saying what she is.
Q 28What name does Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? give the conflict that left Earth blanketed in radioactive dust?
World War Terminus
World War Terminus was so ruinous that nobody in the novel can remember why it started or who, if anyone, won.
Q 29Which costly bird does Rick Deckard covet in a dealer's window in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
An ostrich
An ostrich newly arrived from a zoo in Cleveland carries a price of $29,000, and Deckard phones the dealer from his desk to haggle without success.
Q 30In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which sick pet does J. R. Isidore collect for repair, thinking it a machine?
A cat
A cat dies in the back of Isidore's truck before he reaches the shop, and his boss makes him break the news to its owner by videophone.