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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Mucho and Oedipa eat at a pizzeria, what does Mucho notice about one violin heard on the Muzak playing in the restaurant?
(a) The C string is out of tune.
(b) The E string is tuned too sharp.
(c) The bass is too low.
(d) The bass is too high.

2. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?
(a) Eight.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

3. The San Francisco tourist wearing the lapel pin advises Oedipa to write his group's founder through the ____ system.
(a) Peter Pinguid Society.
(b) Underground mail.
(c) WASTE.
(d) Postal.

4. Who does Oedipa find at an all-night Mexican diner in San Francisco?
(a) Randolph Driblette.
(b) Grace Bortz.
(c) Jesus Arrabal.
(d) John Nefastis.

5. What does the Nefastis Machine do?
(a) Sort postal symbols.
(b) Sort hot and cold molecules.
(c) Create Nuclear warheads.
(d) Create thermodynamics.

6. Oedipa pieces together an account of how the Tristero organization began in what year?
(a) 1577.
(b) 1567.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1757.

7. What scientific rule does the Nefastis Machine violate?
(a) The WASTE Law.
(b) Second Law of Thermodynamics.
(c) First Law of Thermodynamics.
(d) The Law of Triads.

8. Tristero y Calavera set up his own postal system and called himself El Desheredado, which meant what?
(a) The Desperate.
(b) The Disinherited.
(c) The Dangerous.
(d) The Disenfranchised.

9. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.
(a) Nefastis.
(b) Trystero.
(c) Yoyodyne.
(d) WASTE.

10. Suffering nightmares and various symptoms, Oedipa goes to a doctor and requests a pregnancy test under what name?
(a) Enda Mosh.
(b) Mrs. Maas.
(c) Grace Bortz.
(d) Mrs. Metzger.

11. The Paranoids sing a song recounting how men like __________ seduce younger women?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Humbert Humbert.
(c) Miles.
(d) Mucho.

12. What is the purpose of the group as explained by the tourist wearing the lapel pin?
(a) It is a secret society of renegade postal workers.
(b) To help people not fall in love.
(c) It is a secret society of reformed sinners.
(d) To help people fall in love.

13. 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?
(a) Stanley Koteks.
(b) John Nefastis.
(c) Clerk Maxwell.
(d) Emory Bortz.

14. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) LSD.
(b) A divorce.
(c) Money.
(d) His forgiveness.

15. In the time period that brought the creation of The Tristero organization, what was the name of the organization that ran the sanctioned mail routes?
(a) Orange Brigade.
(b) Committee of Eighteen.
(c) Thurn and Taxis.
(d) WASTE.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol?

2. Who is Genghis Cohen?

3. After losing noble patronage, the majority of Tristero members fled to where during 1849-50?

4. Who does Oedipa dream about as she sleeps in the hotel in Berkeley?

5. 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?

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