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The Crying of Lot 49 Quiz

Thomas Pynchon
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The Crying of Lot 49 Quiz

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1)

What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant? (from Chapter 3)

Classical.
Country.
Alternative.
Electronic.
2)

When Oedipa returns to the bar near the Yoyodyne plant, who does she find surrounded by women and dressed in army fatigues as if he were a guerrilla leader? (from Chapter 6)

Miles.
Mike Fallopian.
Metzger.
Mucho.
3)

What does Metzger theorize that the members of Mike Fallopian's group would be opposed to? (from Chapter 3)

Any government monopoly such as the postal system.
Any government monopoly such as the drug adminstration.
Higher taxes.
The electoral system.
4)

What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian? (from Chapter 3)

The Tressero symbol.
The Postal symbol.
The Pynchon symbol.
The WASTE symbol.
5)

What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see? (from Chapter 3)

Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.
American GI's who perished during World War II.
A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
6)

The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what? (from Chapter 4)

Jacobean revenge plays.
Mail delivery.
Thermodynamics.
Astrology.
7)

Bortz suggests to Oedipa that Tristero might have caused ______ simply in order to issue the Proclamation of the 9th Frimaire, An III, ending the sanctioned postal monopoly. (from Chapter 6)

The Black Plague.
The American Revolution.
The Bolshevik Revolution.
The French Revolution.
8)

Genghis Cohen informs Oedipa that a mysterious new bidder requested to view the stamps in lot 49, but the request was denied for what reason? (from Chapter 6)

He was in prison.
The agent was on the list of prohibited bidders.
The agent refused to give the bidder's name.
He refused to give his credit card number.
9)

What scientific rule does the Nefastis Machine violate? (from Chapter 4)

The Law of Triads.
First Law of Thermodynamics.
The WASTE Law.
Second Law of Thermodynamics.
10)

Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered. (from Chapter 3)

The Transmitters.
The Tretero.
The Tristero.
The Transmissions.
11)

Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol? (from Chapter 5)

An herbalist's window in Chinatown.
Written in chalk on a sidewalk.
Gang jackets of delinquents at the city beach.
A message in a fortune cookie.
12)

Who is Genghis Cohen? (from Chapter 4)

A philatelist.
A psychiatrist.
A philosopher.
A philanthropist.
13)

Who saves Oedipa, Metzger and their friends after they are stranded on the island in the middle of Fangoso Lagoons? (from Chapter 3)

Fangoso Lagoons Diving Team.
Fangoso Lagoons Security Force.
Inverarity's Security Force.
San Narciso Police.
14)

What does the owner of the government surplus store, Winthrop Tremaine, tell Oedipa there is a large demand for? (from Chapter 6)

Rifles and swastika armbands.
Swimsuits.
School clothing.
SS uniforms.
15)

What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week? (from Chapter 3)

Send one secret coded message or get fined.
Make one meeting or get fined.
Make one announcement or get fined.
Send one letter or get fined.
16)

As Oedipa sits in the apartment in Berkeley concentrating and awaiting the demon's message, what is on the TV? (from Chapter 5)

Cartoons.
Metzger's movie.
News about Viet Nam.
News about China.
17)

On her way to visit Emory Bortz, what building does Oedipa see burned down? (from Chapter 6)

Zapf's Used Books.
KCUF radio station.
The Tank Theater.
Vespers House.
18)

Where does Genghis Cohen want to send several of the stamps he is reviewing for Oedipa? (from Chapter 4)

San Francisco.
University of California.
An Expert Committee.
A Stamp Expo.
19)

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. (from Chapter 6)

The true lord of Orange.
The true lord of Ohain.
The true lord of Ohama.
The true lord of the Committee of Eighteen.
20)

After losing noble patronage, the majority of Tristero members fled to where during 1849-50? (from Chapter 6)

France.
America.
Russia.
Belgium.
21)

According to Stanley Koteks, who are the only ones who can work the Nefastis Machine? (from Chapter 4)

Demonstrators.
Demons.
Scientists.
Sensitives.
22)

After finding a copy of Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger, Oedipa discovers a note that says "trystero" may be derived from the Italian word "triste." What does this word mean? (from Chapter 5)

Depraved.
Mysterious.
Third.
Deadly.
23)

Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory. (from Chapter 4)

Communist.
Open Markets.
Surplus Value.
Thermodynamics.
24)

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

Los Angelos.
San Francisco.
The Bay Bridge.
The wharf.
25)

Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror? (from Chapter 3)

Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
Communism and Marxism.
Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
Industrial capitalism and Communism.
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