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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the author of the preface of the "Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger," who Oedipa travels to the Cal State campus to find?
(a) Clerk Maxwell.
(b) Stanley Koteks.
(c) John Nefastis.
(d) Emory Bortz.

2. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Sentimental.
(c) Sensible.
(d) Secretive.

3. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Surplus Value.
(c) Communist.
(d) Open Markets.

4. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?
(a) Control.
(b) Combustion.
(c) Coincidence.
(d) Communication.

5. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?
(a) Behind Nefastis' apartment.
(b) At her hotel.
(c) On a bus.
(d) Under the freeway

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

2. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.

3. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?

4. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?

5. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?

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