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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?
(a) Control.
(b) Coincidence.
(c) Combustion.
(d) Communication.

2. 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 deodorant.
(c) A can of mace.
(d) A can of hairspray.

3. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) A clubhouse.
(b) A European pleasure-casino.
(c) A skyscraper.
(d) A European cruise ship.

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

5. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The movie company owned by Metger.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Oedipa walks around the college campus in Chapter 5, she realizes her education made her what?

2. Who does Oedipa find in a pseudo-Mexican apartment building in Berkeley?

3. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?

4. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?

5. Oedipa has a conversation in a bar with the wearer of the lapel pin, and he tells her he is a member of what group?

(see the answer key)

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