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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?
(a) They remind her of home.
(b) They contain a concealed message.
(c) The street signs spell out a message.
(d) They look confusing to drive.

2. What is Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) A beach in San Narcisco.
(b) An Disneyesque amusement park.
(c) A housing development in Kinneret in which Inverarity owned stock.
(d) A housing development in San Narciso in which Inverarity owned stock.

3. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip poker.
(b) A game of poker.
(c) A game of Botticelli cards.
(d) A game of strip Botticelli.

4. What is the reason for Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Pierce Inverarity?
(a) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of drugs.
(b) He claims Inverarity never gave him a shipment for which he had paid in advance.
(c) He claims that Inveraity made false statement about him.
(d) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of bones.

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 ____________.
(a) Curiosity.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Currency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mr. Thoth, a resident of the home for senior citizens, wakes from a doze and mentions to Oedipa that his grandfather rode for the ______________.

2. How does Oedipa end up at the desk of Stanley Koteks?

3. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.

4. What is Stanley Koteks doodling when Oedipa comes up to his desk?

5. What was the previous occupation of Mucho Mass?

(see the answer key)

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