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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) Real estate mogul.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Radio disc jockey.

2. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.
(a) The Courier's Tragic Story.
(b) The Court's Revenge.
(c) The Court's Tragedy.
(d) The Courier's Tragedy.

3. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
(a) Her hometown of Kinneret.
(b) A circuit card she once saw in a transistor radio.
(c) The song "I Want to Kiss Your Feet."
(d) A postcard of San Francisco.

4. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?
(a) The first secret postal service.
(b) The first anti-communist rally in America.
(c) The first military confrontation between Iran and America.
(d) The first military confrontation between Russia and America.

5. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Industrial capitalism and Communism.
(b) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
(c) Communism and Marxism.
(d) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?

2. What is the name of Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?

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

4. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?

5. What is the reason for Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Pierce Inverarity?

(see the answer key)

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