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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Genghis Cohen claims that the stamp, which depicts a Pony Express rider galloping out of a western fort into a black feather, is what?
(a) Counterfeit.
(b) Extinct.
(c) Priceless.
(d) Rare.

2. Oedipa recites the couplet from the play which mentions Trystero and Bortz and says the quote came from a pornographic version of the play which was held where?
(a) Paris.
(b) The Vatican.
(c) San Francico.
(d) A Puritan settlement.

3. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) They use bone charcoal filters.
(b) They won't cause cancer.
(c) They are made with bone instead of tobacco.
(d) They have no filters.

4. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?
(a) Her father's poster collection.
(b) Military recruiting posters with a marine.
(c) Military recruiting posters with Uncle Sam.
(d) Her Uncle Sal.

5. After finding a copy of Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger, Oedipa discovers a note that says "trystero" may be derived from the Italian word "triste." What does this word mean?
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Depraved.
(c) Third.
(d) Deadly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the actor who will play Metzger in a pilot for a TV series?

2. 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.

3. Bortz leads Oedipa into a study to view woodcut illustrations from the pornographic version of the play. What does she see hovering in the background of the obscene images?

4. 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?

5. Bortz imagines one visionary militant addressing a group of Tristero members in a tavern to propose a merger with official postal couriers. What name does he give to this visionary?

(see the answer key)

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