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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Miles.
(d) Oedipa.

2. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?
(a) Bad acting.
(b) Liberated women.
(c) Boring plays.
(d) Long lines.

3. 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?
(a) The movie company owned by Metger.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.

4. What is the name of Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?
(a) Fu-Mucho.
(b) Fu-Manchu.
(c) Nannynana.
(d) Fraidycat.

5. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
(a) Her last words to Mucho before she left.
(b) A slow whirlwind and words she couldn't hear.
(c) Words to a song she can't remember.
(d) Her last words to Inverarity whirling around her.

Short Answer Questions

1. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?

2. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?

3. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

4. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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