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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) What Inverarity said about her.
(b) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(c) The name of the other actor in the movie.
(d) What his acting name was.

2. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?
(a) Memories of competition.
(b) Metamorphism.
(c) Mental acuity.
(d) Memories of combat.

3. What scientific rule does the Nefastis Machine violate?
(a) The Law of Triads.
(b) First Law of Thermodynamics.
(c) The WASTE Law.
(d) Second Law of Thermodynamics.

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

5. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.
(a) Trystero.
(b) Yoyodyne.
(c) WASTE.
(d) Nefastis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?

2. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?

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

4. 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.

5. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?

(see the answer key)

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