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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) Acute consciousness.
(b) Migraines.
(c) A crisis of conscience.
(d) A crisis of sadness.

2. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
(b) Inverarity listed it in his will.
(c) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(d) Inverarity wrote a song about it.

3. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?
(a) A psychiatrist appointment.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A bar.
(d) A Tupperware party.

4. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
(a) "Inverarity's" or "big block of shares."
(b) "I own shares in that."
(c) "I know that actress" or "I turned that one down."
(d) "I hate that product."

5. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter-free process.
(b) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?

2. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

3. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?

4. What kind of experiment does Dr. Hilarius want Oedipa to take part in?

5. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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