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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
(a) To go on medication.
(b) To go off the medication.
(c) Not to leave her "shrink ."
(d) To find another "shrink."

2. 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 hairspray.
(c) A can of deodorant.
(d) A can of mace.

3. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A nymph holding a white blossom.
(b) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(c) Echo, the god of wind.
(d) Athena, the goddess of love.

4. 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?
(a) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.
(b) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.
(c) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(d) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.

5. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Cattle rancher.
(b) Real estate mogul.
(c) Radio station disc jockey.
(d) Used car salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.

4. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.

5. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?

(see the answer key)

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