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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) The name of the other actor in the movie.
(b) What Inverarity said about her.
(c) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(d) What his acting name was.

2. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.
(a) The Courier's Tragedy.
(b) The Court's Revenge.
(c) The Court's Tragedy.
(d) The Courier's Tragic Story.

3. 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 Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

4. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.
(a) Yoyodyne.
(b) Nefastis.
(c) Trystero.
(d) WASTE.

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.
(a) 100.
(b) 800.
(c) 600.
(d) 900.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?

2. Whose address in Berkeley does Stanley Koteks give to Oedipa?

3. According to Genghis Cohen, who organized the courier service in the Bergamo region around 1290?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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