1. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?
(a) Mucho will join the circus.
(b) Mucho will commit adultery with a teenager.
(c) Mucho will be angry that she slept with Metzger.
(d) Mucho will quit his job.

2. 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.

3. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip poker.
(b) A game of Botticelli cards.
(c) A game of strip Botticelli.
(d) A game of poker.

4. 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 deodorant.
(b) A can of mace.
(c) A can of propane.
(d) A can of hairspray.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?

2. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?

3. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?

4. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?

5. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?

(see the answer key)

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