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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Rothman.
(d) Roseman.

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

4. Who saves Oedipa, Metzger and their friends after they are stranded on the island in the middle of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Fangoso Lagoons Diving Team.
(b) Fangoso Lagoons Security Force.
(c) San Narciso Police.
(d) Inverarity's Security Force.

5. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?
(a) Mucho will join the circus.
(b) Mucho will commit adultery with a teenager.
(c) Mucho will quit his job.
(d) Mucho will be angry that she slept with Metzger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?

2. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?

3. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?

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

5. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?

(see the answer key)

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