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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
(a) Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(b) American GI's who perished during World War II.
(c) A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(d) Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.

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

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.
(a) Preachers.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Priests.
(d) Scientists.

4. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) He is disguised as one of the Paranoids
(b) He is hiding under a tarp in a skin-diving suit.
(c) He is hiding under a roller coaster in a skin-diving suit.
(d) He is disguised as a woman.

5. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?
(a) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.
(b) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.
(c) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(d) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?

3. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?

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

5. The San Francisco tourist wearing the lapel pin advises Oedipa to write his group's founder through the ____ system.

(see the answer key)

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