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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Go to a motel.
(b) Pay the bill.
(c) Run away with him.
(d) Sleep with him.

2. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?
(a) Mental acuity.
(b) Metamorphism.
(c) Memories of combat.
(d) Memories of competition.

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

4. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A nightclub.
(b) A Turkish bath.
(c) A resturant.
(d) A hotel.

5. Who is Randolph Driblette?
(a) Author of the Jacobean revenge play.
(b) Leader of the Peter Pinguid Society.
(c) Leader of the Paranoids.
(d) Director of the Jacobean revenge play.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?

3. 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.

4. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

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

(see the answer key)

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