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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Industrial capitalism and Communism.
(b) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
(c) Communism and Marxism.
(d) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.

3. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?
(a) A young man waltzes her around the ballroom.
(b) She finds Mucho waiting in her room.
(c) She sleeps wtih John Nefastis.
(d) She sees the ghost of Inverarity.

4. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(b) What Inverarity said about her.
(c) What his acting name was.
(d) The name of the other actor in the movie.

5. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?
(a) Swampy.
(b) Swanky.
(c) Famous.
(d) Fan dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?

2. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?

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

4. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.

5. The San Francisco tourist wearing the lapel pin advises Oedipa to write his group's founder through the ____ system.

(see the answer key)

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