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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Acapulco.
(c) Buenos Aires.
(d) Mazatlan.

2. Who is Metzger?
(a) The co-executor of Oedipa's will.
(b) Oedipa's lawyer.
(c) The co-executor of Inverarity's will.
(d) Inverarity's business partner.

3. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip poker.
(b) A game of strip Botticelli.
(c) A game of poker.
(d) A game of Botticelli cards.

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

5. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
(a) Her hometown of Kinneret.
(b) The song "I Want to Kiss Your Feet."
(c) A postcard of San Francisco.
(d) A circuit card she once saw in a transistor radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Metzger's current occupation?

2. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?

3. 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?

4. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?

5. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?

(see the answer key)

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