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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 movie company owned by Metger.
(d) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.

2. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) A TV remote.
(c) A candelabra.
(d) A TV antenna.

3. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?
(a) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.
(b) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.
(c) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(d) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.

4. Oedipa's hotel room in the Berkeley hills contains a reproduction of whose painting?
(a) Vincent Van Gogh.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Reynoldo Vanos.
(d) Remedios Varo.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?

3. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?

4. 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?

5. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?

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