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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity listed it in his will.
(b) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(c) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
(d) Inverarity wrote a song about it.

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

3. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) The Scoop.
(b) The Scope.
(c) The Scuttle.
(d) The Sound.

4. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) Athena, the goddess of love.
(b) Echo, the god of wind.
(c) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(d) A nymph holding a white blossom.

5. What does Oedipa see on an airmail stamp with a jet flying by the Capital dome that is on the letter the old drunk asks her to mail?
(a) A suspicious black figure flying the plane.
(b) A dead badger on top of the dome.
(c) A suspicious black figure on top of the dome.
(d) A WASTE symbol on the plane.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?

3. 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.

4. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?

5. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.

(see the answer key)

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