View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter process.
(b) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter-free process.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.

2. 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 office interactions.
(b) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.
(c) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(d) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.

3. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?
(a) Military recruiting posters with a marine.
(b) Her father's poster collection.
(c) Military recruiting posters with Uncle Sam.
(d) Her Uncle Sal.

4. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) Metzger.
(b) The movie.
(c) Inverarity.
(d) Music.

5. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?
(a) Radio station disc jockey.
(b) Real estate mogul.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Used car salesman.

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 kind of experiment does Dr. Hilarius want Oedipa to take part in?

4. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?

5. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 306 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample