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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?
(a) Mucho will be angry that she slept with Metzger.
(b) Mucho will commit adultery with a teenager.
(c) Mucho will quit his job.
(d) Mucho will join the circus.

2. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) Classical.
(b) Country.
(c) Electronic.
(d) Alternative.

3. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.
(a) Industrial capitalism.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Postal service.
(d) Marxism.

4. What does Metzger theorize that the members of Mike Fallopian's group would be opposed to?
(a) Higher taxes.
(b) Any government monopoly such as the postal system.
(c) Any government monopoly such as the drug adminstration.
(d) The electoral system.

5. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?
(a) She begins to laugh.
(b) She kisses Metzger.
(c) She slaps Metzger.
(d) She begins to cry.

6. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?
(a) Baby Love.
(b) Baby Joe.
(c) Baby Igor.
(d) Baby Jane.

7. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter-free process.
(b) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter process.

8. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.
(a) Currency.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Conflict.

9. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?
(a) Liberated women.
(b) Bad acting.
(c) Boring plays.
(d) Long lines.

10. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?
(a) Inverarity.
(b) The Paranoids.
(c) Mucho.
(d) Di Presso.

11. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Fragments of sunken galleons and Atlantean columns.
(b) Fragments of old Disney Land rides.
(c) Fragments of missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone.
(d) Famous fountains coming out of sunken ships.

12. What is the name of the theater where Metzger and Oedipa see the Jacobean revenge play?
(a) Tank Theater.
(b) Time Theater.
(c) Inverarity Theater.
(d) San Narciso Theater.

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

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

15. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?
(a) A modern fairytale.
(b) A modern Rapunzel.
(c) A Monet painting.
(d) A modern Cinderella.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?

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

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

5. 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?

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