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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A Turkish bath.
(b) A resturant.
(c) A nightclub.
(d) A hotel.

2. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.
(a) The wharf.
(b) Los Angelos.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) The Bay Bridge.

3. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Go to a motel.
(b) Sleep with him.
(c) Run away with him.
(d) Pay the bill.

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

5. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) A divorce.
(b) Money.
(c) His forgiveness.
(d) LSD.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?

4. When Oedipa meets Mike Fallopian for the second time, he tells her it is difficult to find documentary proof of what?

5. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?

(see the answer key)

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