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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?
(a) Long lines.
(b) Bad acting.
(c) Boring plays.
(d) Liberated women.

2. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?
(a) Inverarity's name and image.
(b) Yoyodyne's office supplies.
(c) Yoyodyne's inter-office delivery system.
(d) Inverarity's money.

3. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?
(a) She sleeps wtih John Nefastis.
(b) A young man waltzes her around the ballroom.
(c) She finds Mucho waiting in her room.
(d) She sees the ghost of Inverarity.

4. What is the current occupation of the actor who is playing Metzger in the TV pilot?
(a) Real estate mogul.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Radio disc jockey.
(d) Used car salesman.

5. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Industrial capitalism and Communism.
(b) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
(c) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
(d) Communism and Marxism.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Oedipa drives to Berkeley to find the source text for the Jacobean revenge play, she misses the exit to where?

2. Who does Dr. Hilarius think the police are when they come to his clinic?

3. When Mucho interviews Oedipa after she leaves Dr. Hilarius's office, what name does her call her?

4. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?

5. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?

(see the answer key)

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