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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) The wharf.
(b) Los Angelos.
(c) The Bay Bridge.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) Alternative.
(b) Electronic.
(c) Country.
(d) Classical.

3. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.
(a) The Tretero.
(b) The Transmissions.
(c) The Tristero.
(d) The Transmitters.

4. What name does Oedipa give to her series of revelations?
(a) The Transmitter.
(b) The Tretero.
(c) The Tristero.
(d) The Transmissions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?

2. Oedipa arrives at a German Baroque hotel in the Berkeley hills which is hosting a meeting of what organization?

3. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

4. Dr. Hilarius protests that if he had been a real Nazi he would have become a Jungian. Instead, he chose to follow __________.

5. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.

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