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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Sleep with him.
(b) Run away with him.
(c) Pay the bill.
(d) Go to a motel.

2. Oedipa goes to Zapf's Used Books to buy a copy of what book?
(a) The Trystero.
(b) Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Real Revenge Plays.

3. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa an old German stamp with Thurn and Taxis printed on it which has a special symbol in each corner. He suggests that the extra mark on the symbol is a ______.
(a) Mute.
(b) Flute.
(c) Moat.
(d) Foul.

4. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) They are made with bone instead of tobacco.
(b) They use bone charcoal filters.
(c) They have no filters.
(d) They won't cause cancer.

5. How does Oedipa end up at the desk of Stanley Koteks?
(a) She gets lost on a tour of Yoyodyne.
(b) She follows the WASTE symbols.
(c) They are former lovers.
(d) She is directed there by voices in her head.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?

2. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.

3. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?

4. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?

5. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?

(see the answer key)

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