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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?
(a) Radio station disc jockey.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Used car salesman.
(d) Real estate mogul.

2. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Life after death.
(b) The meaning of life.
(c) A magical presence.
(d) Her marriage.

3. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?
(a) A lot of stress.
(b) A lack of adventure.
(c) A lack of intensity.
(d) A lack of romance.

4. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
(a) To find another "shrink."
(b) To go off the medication.
(c) Not to leave her "shrink ."
(d) To go on medication.

5. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Have a drink.
(b) Contact their lawyer.
(c) Call Inverarity's wife.
(d) Go see her shrink.

Short Answer Questions

1. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?

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

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?

4. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?

5. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?

(see the answer key)

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