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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.
(b) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(c) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.
(d) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.

2. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A can of hairspray.
(b) A can of propane.
(c) A can of deodorant.
(d) A can of mace.

3. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Used car salesman.
(b) Cattle rancher.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Radio station disc jockey.

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

5. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?
(a) Secretive.
(b) Sensible.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Sensitive.

6. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of Botticelli cards.
(b) A game of strip Botticelli.
(c) A game of strip poker.
(d) A game of poker.

7. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(b) A copy of the Bible.
(c) A copy of the Trystero.
(d) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.

8. What is the name of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Mike.
(c) Miles.
(d) Milton.

9. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?
(a) They remind her of home.
(b) They contain a concealed message.
(c) The street signs spell out a message.
(d) They look confusing to drive.

10. 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 filter process.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.

11. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?
(a) The Sex Pistols.
(b) The Eagles.
(c) The Beatles.
(d) The Beach Boys.

12. What name does Oedipa give to her series of revelations?
(a) The Tristero.
(b) The Transmitter.
(c) The Tretero.
(d) The Transmissions.

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

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

15. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
(b) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
(c) Communism and Marxism.
(d) Industrial capitalism and Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?

2. Who is the television character that Oedipa's lawyer is writing about?

3. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?

4. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?

5. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?

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