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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What song do the Paranoids play for Oedipa and Metzger the first night in the motel?
(a) Serenity.
(b) Serene.
(c) Serenada.
(d) Serenade.

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

4. What name does Oedipa give to her series of revelations?
(a) The Tristero.
(b) The Transmissions.
(c) The Transmitter.
(d) The Tretero.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

2. What is the current occupation of the actor who is playing Metzger in the TV pilot?

3. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?

4. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?

5. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.

(see the answer key)

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