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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?
(a) He makes love to her.
(b) He takes her hostage.
(c) He gives her LSD.
(d) He begs her to run away with him.

2. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(c) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

3. What is the name of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) Milton.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Miles.
(d) Mike.

4. What does Oedipa see on an airmail stamp with a jet flying by the Capital dome that is on the letter the old drunk asks her to mail?
(a) A suspicious black figure flying the plane.
(b) A suspicious black figure on top of the dome.
(c) A dead badger on top of the dome.
(d) A WASTE symbol on the plane.

5. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) LSD.
(b) His forgiveness.
(c) Money.
(d) A divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?

2. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?

3. Who does Oedipa find at an all-night Mexican diner in San Francisco?

4. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?

5. Who is Metzger?

(see the answer key)

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