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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Oedipa goes backstage, Driblette tells her that words are like what?
(a) Flesh that must be given life.
(b) Flesh that must be buried.
(c) Bones that must be given life.
(d) Bones that must be buried.

2. 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 Pierce owned shares.
(c) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(d) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.

3. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A Turkish bath.
(c) A nightclub.
(d) A resturant.

4. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) He is disguised as one of the Paranoids
(b) He is hiding under a roller coaster in a skin-diving suit.
(c) He is disguised as a woman.
(d) He is hiding under a tarp in a skin-diving suit.

5. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip poker.
(b) A game of Botticelli cards.
(c) A game of strip Botticelli.
(d) A game of poker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Metzger?

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

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

5. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?

(see the answer key)

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