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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
(a) Opedipa has a vision.
(b) Metzger falls asleep.
(c) The Parniods sing.
(d) The lights go out.

2. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?
(a) Mucho Maas.
(b) The Paranoids and their girlfriends.
(c) Mike Fallopian and his girlfriend.
(d) Richard Wharfinger.

3. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cashout.
(b) Cashit.
(c) Cash Only.
(d) Cashiered.

4. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?
(a) Military recruiting posters with Uncle Sam.
(b) Her father's poster collection.
(c) Military recruiting posters with a marine.
(d) Her Uncle Sal.

5. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
(a) A letter last year from Inverarity.
(b) A marriage proposal from Inverarity.
(c) A three a.m. phone call last year from Inverarity.
(d) An urgent phone call from Inverarity asking her for help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Metzger's current occupation?

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

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

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 bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?

(see the answer key)

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