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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.
(a) The Court's Revenge.
(b) The Courier's Tragic Story.
(c) The Court's Tragedy.
(d) The Courier's Tragedy.

2. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
(a) Opedipa has a vision.
(b) Metzger falls asleep.
(c) The lights go out.
(d) The Parniods sing.

3. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Roseman.
(d) Rothman.

4. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Her marriage.
(b) A magical presence.
(c) Life after death.
(d) The meaning of life.

5. What is Metzger's current occupation?
(a) Real estate mogul.
(b) Actor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Disc jockey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?

2. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?

3. 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?

4. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.

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

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