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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?
(a) Inverarity's name and image.
(b) Inverarity's money.
(c) Yoyodyne's inter-office delivery system.
(d) Yoyodyne's office supplies.

3. Who is Randolph Driblette?
(a) Leader of the Paranoids.
(b) Leader of the Peter Pinguid Society.
(c) Director of the Jacobean revenge play.
(d) Author of the Jacobean revenge play.

4. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(b) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.
(c) A copy of the Trystero.
(d) A copy of the Bible.

5. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?
(a) Mental acuity.
(b) Memories of competition.
(c) Memories of combat.
(d) Metamorphism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?

2. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?

3. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the actor who will play Metzger in a pilot for a TV series?

(see the answer key)

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