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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being too pushy.
(b) Being a poor judge of character.
(c) Being too overtly sexual.
(d) Being too judgemental.

2. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?
(a) Oakland.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Sacramento.

3. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.
(a) Conflict.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Currency.
(d) Curiosity.

4. What is the purpose of the group as explained by the tourist wearing the lapel pin?
(a) It is a secret society of reformed sinners.
(b) It is a secret society of renegade postal workers.
(c) To help people fall in love.
(d) To help people not fall in love.

5. Who is Metzger?
(a) Oedipa's lawyer.
(b) Inverarity's business partner.
(c) The co-executor of Inverarity's will.
(d) The co-executor of Oedipa's will.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oedipa try to call from a phone booth before she heads to the bookstore?

2. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.

3. Where does Stanley Koteks tell Oedipa to go instead of Berkeley after he becomes distrustful of her?

4. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?

5. Genghis Cohen told Oedipa, during their discussion about the meanings behind the stamps, that he had never heard of an _______ year tradition of postal fraud.

(see the answer key)

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