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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Call Inverarity's wife.
(b) Contact their lawyer.
(c) Have a drink.
(d) Go see her shrink.

2. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
(a) A three a.m. phone call last year from Inverarity.
(b) An urgent phone call from Inverarity asking her for help.
(c) A marriage proposal from Inverarity.
(d) A letter last year from Inverarity.

3. What is the name of the home for senior citizens that Oedipa visits?
(a) Vesperhaven House.
(b) Vespers House.
(c) Vestibule House.
(d) Haven House.

4. As Oedipa walks around the college campus in Chapter 5, she realizes her education made her what?
(a) Unfit for being a sensitive.
(b) Unfit for this world.
(c) Unfit for protests.
(d) Unfit for deciphering texts.

5. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?
(a) A lot of stress.
(b) A lack of intensity.
(c) A lack of romance.
(d) A lack of adventure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oedipa find at an all-night Mexican diner in San Francisco?

2. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?

3. Who does Oedipa dream about as she sleeps in the hotel in Berkeley?

4. According to Genghis Cohen, who organized the courier service in the Bergamo region around 1290?

5. Oedipa has a conversation in a bar with the wearer of the lapel pin, and he tells her he is a member of what group?

(see the answer key)

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