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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The name Tristero can be traced back to Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera who claimed to be _________ and thus the rightful Grand Master of the Post.
(a) The true lord of Ohain.
(b) The true lord of Ohama.
(c) The true lord of the Committee of Eighteen.
(d) The true lord of Orange.

2. 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) Yoyodyne.
(b) WASTE.
(c) Nefastis.
(d) Trystero.

3. Oedipa drives around the freeway at night without her lights on, and then ends up in a phone booth calling which bar in San Francisco?
(a) The Geek Way.
(b) The Scope.
(c) The Accidental Meeting.
(d) The Greek Way.

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

5. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?
(a) Design.
(b) Patents.
(c) Stockholders.
(d) Board.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?

2. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?

3. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.

4. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa an old German stamp with Thurn and Taxis printed on it which has a special symbol in each corner. He suggests that the extra mark on the symbol is a ______.

5. 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.

Short Essay Questions

1. Bortz hands Oedipa an ancient book about the Italian travels of Dr. Diocletian Blobb. What does this story have to do with the Trystero?

2. Why are WASTE mail boxes located under freeways?

3. What does the historical marker that Oedipa remembers seeing at Fangoso Lagoons commemorate?

4. What causes Oedipa to realize that every source of information on the Tristero can somehow be traced to Inverarity?

5. Why does Oedipa consider her job as co-executor to be similar to Driblette's job as director of a play?

6. As Oedipa sits in rush hour traffic on the Bay Bridge, what does she determine she knows about Tristero?

7. Why does Oedipa think it is possible that her search for Tristero may be a hoax created by Pierce Inverarity?

8. Why does Nefastis contend that only a sensitive person can work his machine?

9. Inamorati Anonymous' association to the muted post horn symbol seems purely accidental, yet what are some similarities this group has to the Tristero?

10. What is the story behind the founding of Inamorati Anonymous?

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