1. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A can of propane.
(b) A can of mace.
(c) A can of hairspray.
(d) A can of deodorant.

2. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
(a) American GI's who perished during World War II.
(b) A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(c) Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(d) Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.

3. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being too judgemental.
(b) Being too overtly sexual.
(c) Being a poor judge of character.
(d) Being too pushy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?

5. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?

(see the answer key)

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