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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) The movie.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Inverarity.
(d) Music.

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

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

4. What is Metzger's current occupation?
(a) Disc jockey.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Actor.

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

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

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

8. 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 propane.
(b) A can of mace.
(c) A can of hairspray.
(d) A can of deodorant.

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

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

11. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?
(a) Inverarity's money.
(b) Yoyodyne's inter-office delivery system.
(c) Inverarity's name and image.
(d) Yoyodyne's office supplies.

12. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Roseman.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Rothman.

13. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.
(a) The Courier's Tragic Story.
(b) The Court's Tragedy.
(c) The Courier's Tragedy.
(d) The Court's Revenge.

14. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?
(a) Mike Fallopian and his girlfriend.
(b) Richard Wharfinger.
(c) Mucho Maas.
(d) The Paranoids and their girlfriends.

15. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being a poor judge of character.
(b) Being too pushy.
(c) Being too overtly sexual.
(d) Being too judgemental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?

2. Who is Randolph Driblette?

3. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?

4. What is the current occupation of the actor who is playing Metzger in the TV pilot?

5. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.

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