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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.
(a) Los Angelos.
(b) The wharf.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) The Bay Bridge.

2. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) A TV remote.
(c) A TV antenna.
(d) A candelabra.

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

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

5. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A copy of the Bible.
(b) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(c) A copy of the Trystero.
(d) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who does Oedipa find at an all-night Mexican diner in San Francisco?

3. What does Metzger theorize that the members of Mike Fallopian's group would be opposed to?

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. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.

(see the answer key)

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