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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the actor who will play Metzger in a pilot for a TV series?
(a) Manic Depresso.
(b) Marvin Di Pizario.
(c) Manny Di Presso.
(d) Maas De Presso.

2. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?
(a) Be executor of his estate.
(b) Be sole proprietor for his business.
(c) Be godmother to his children.
(d) Inherit his estate.

3. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being too overtly sexual.
(b) Being too judgemental.
(c) Being a poor judge of character.
(d) Being too pushy.

4. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?
(a) A hallucinogenic drug.
(b) A Freudian slip.
(c) A Rorschach blot.
(d) A psychological reaction.

5. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) A crisis of conscience.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Acute consciousness.
(d) A crisis of sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?

2. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?

3. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?

4. 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?

5. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?

(see the answer key)

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