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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the current occupation of the actor who is playing Metzger in the TV pilot?
(a) Radio disc jockey.
(b) Real estate mogul.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Used car salesman.

3. What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week?
(a) Make one announcement or get fined.
(b) Send one letter or get fined.
(c) Send one secret coded message or get fined.
(d) Make one meeting or get fined.

4. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) Athena, the goddess of love.
(b) A nymph holding a white blossom.
(c) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(d) Echo, the god of wind.

5. When Oedipa goes backstage, Driblette tells her that words are like what?
(a) Flesh that must be given life.
(b) Bones that must be buried.
(c) Flesh that must be buried.
(d) Bones that must be given life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Metzger's current occupation?

2. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?

3. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?

4. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?

5. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?

(see the answer key)

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