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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?
(a) They remind her of home.
(b) They look confusing to drive.
(c) The street signs spell out a message.
(d) They contain a concealed message.

2. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Fragments of old Disney Land rides.
(b) Fragments of missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone.
(c) Fragments of sunken galleons and Atlantean columns.
(d) Famous fountains coming out of sunken ships.

3. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?
(a) She begins to laugh.
(b) She begins to cry.
(c) She kisses Metzger.
(d) She slaps Metzger.

4. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?
(a) A magical presence.
(b) Life after death.
(c) Her marriage.
(d) The meaning of life.

5. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.
(b) Tape all Mucho's office interactions.
(c) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(d) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.

Short Answer Questions

1. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?

2. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?

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. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?

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

(see the answer key)

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