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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?
(a) Inherit his estate.
(b) Be sole proprietor for his business.
(c) Be godmother to his children.
(d) Be executor of his estate.

2. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Sentimental.
(c) Secretive.
(d) Sensible.

3. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?
(a) McKenney.
(b) Kenney.
(c) Kismet.
(d) Kinneret.

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?
(a) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?

2. What was the previous occupation of Mucho Mass?

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

4. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?

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

(see the answer key)

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