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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Postal service.
(d) Industrial capitalism.

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

3. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?
(a) He said she would be easy.
(b) He said she wouldn't be easy.
(c) He said she was easy to talk to.
(d) He said she would have an easy time being executor.

4. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.
(a) Preachers.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Priests.

5. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) He is disguised as a woman.
(b) He is hiding under a tarp in a skin-diving suit.
(c) He is disguised as one of the Paranoids
(d) He is hiding under a roller coaster in a skin-diving suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?

2. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?

3. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?

4. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?

5. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?

(see the answer key)

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