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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 Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) What Inverarity said about her.
(b) The name of the other actor in the movie.
(c) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(d) What his acting name was.

2. What is Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) A housing development in Kinneret in which Inverarity owned stock.
(b) An Disneyesque amusement park.
(c) A housing development in San Narciso in which Inverarity owned stock.
(d) A beach in San Narcisco.

3. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Fragments of sunken galleons and Atlantean columns.
(b) Fragments of missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone.
(c) Famous fountains coming out of sunken ships.
(d) Fragments of old Disney Land rides.

4. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) Acute consciousness.
(b) A crisis of sadness.
(c) Migraines.
(d) A crisis of conscience.

5. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?
(a) Richard Wharfinger.
(b) Mike Fallopian and his girlfriend.
(c) Mucho Maas.
(d) The Paranoids and their girlfriends.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?

2. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?

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

4. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?

5. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?

(see the answer key)

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