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

2. Oedipa goes to Zapf's Used Books to buy a copy of what book?
(a) The Trystero.
(b) Real Revenge Plays.
(c) Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(d) The Bible.

3. After arriving at Dr. Hilarius's clinic, Oedipa is told what by the doctor's assistant?
(a) He is in love with Oedipa.
(b) He is head of the WASTE organization.
(c) He has gone crazy.
(d) He is moving to China.

4. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?
(a) He makes love to her.
(b) He takes her hostage.
(c) He begs her to run away with him.
(d) He gives her LSD.

5. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?
(a) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.
(b) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(c) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.
(d) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?

2. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?

3. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?

4. Genghis Cohen claims that the stamp, which depicts a Pony Express rider galloping out of a western fort into a black feather, is what?

5. As Oedipa drives to Berkeley to find the source text for the Jacobean revenge play, she misses the exit to where?

(see the answer key)

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