View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) Life after death.
(c) Her marriage.
(d) A magical presence.

2. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
(a) "I know that actress" or "I turned that one down."
(b) "I hate that product."
(c) "Inverarity's" or "big block of shares."
(d) "I own shares in that."

3. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Used car salesman.
(b) Real estate mogul.
(c) Cattle rancher.
(d) Radio station disc jockey.

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

5. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?
(a) He said she would be easy.
(b) He said she was easy to talk to.
(c) He said she wouldn't be easy.
(d) He said she would have an easy time being executor.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?

2. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?

3. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?

4. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?

5. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa a Pony Express stamp from 1940 with the _______ symbol on the back.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 321 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample