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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
(a) The lights go out.
(b) Opedipa has a vision.
(c) The Parniods sing.
(d) Metzger falls asleep.

2. Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol?
(a) Gang jackets of delinquents at the city beach.
(b) An herbalist's window in Chinatown.
(c) Written in chalk on a sidewalk.
(d) A message in a fortune cookie.

3. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cashit.
(b) Cashout.
(c) Cash Only.
(d) Cashiered.

4. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?
(a) Swanky.
(b) Swampy.
(c) Famous.
(d) Fan dance.

5. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?
(a) Behind Nefastis' apartment.
(b) Under the freeway
(c) On a bus.
(d) At her hotel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?

2. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?

3. 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?

4. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?

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?

(see the answer key)

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