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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 San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
(a) Her hometown of Kinneret.
(b) A postcard of San Francisco.
(c) The song "I Want to Kiss Your Feet."
(d) A circuit card she once saw in a transistor radio.

2. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
(a) To go on medication.
(b) To find another "shrink."
(c) Not to leave her "shrink ."
(d) To go off the medication.

3. 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.

4. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?
(a) The first military confrontation between Russia and America.
(b) The first secret postal service.
(c) The first anti-communist rally in America.
(d) The first military confrontation between Iran and America.

5. 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?
(a) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?

2. What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week?

3. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?

4. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?

5. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?

(see the answer key)

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