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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.
(a) The Tristero.
(b) The Transmitters.
(c) The Tretero.
(d) The Transmissions.

2. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?
(a) Pete Seger Society.
(b) Civil War Civilians.
(c) Disgruntled.
(d) Peter Pinguid Society.

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

4. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) They use bone charcoal filters.
(b) They are made with bone instead of tobacco.
(c) They won't cause cancer.
(d) They have no filters.

5. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
(a) "Inverarity's" or "big block of shares."
(b) "I hate that product."
(c) "I know that actress" or "I turned that one down."
(d) "I own shares in that."

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?

2. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?

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

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

5. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?

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