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

2. 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 know that actress" or "I turned that one down."
(c) "I hate that product."
(d) "I own shares in that."

3. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.
(a) Democracy.
(b) Postal service.
(c) Marxism.
(d) Industrial capitalism.

4. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?
(a) Pierce.
(b) Walter.
(c) Wendell.
(d) Perry.

5. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) A candelabra.
(c) A TV antenna.
(d) A TV remote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?

2. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?

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

4. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?

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

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