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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Randolph Driblette?
(a) Author of the Jacobean revenge play.
(b) Leader of the Peter Pinguid Society.
(c) Leader of the Paranoids.
(d) Director of the Jacobean revenge play.

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

3. 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.
(a) WASTE.
(b) Yoyodyne.
(c) Trystero.
(d) Nefastis.

4. Genghis Cohen claims that the stamp, which depicts a Pony Express rider galloping out of a western fort into a black feather, is what?
(a) Extinct.
(b) Counterfeit.
(c) Priceless.
(d) Rare.

5. What is Metzger's current occupation?
(a) Disc jockey.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Actor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?

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

3. Who is the television character that Oedipa's lawyer is writing about?

4. Who is Genghis Cohen?

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

(see the answer key)

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