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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A Tupperware party.
(c) A psychiatrist appointment.
(d) A bar.

2. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa a Pony Express stamp from 1940 with the _______ symbol on the back.
(a) Yoyodyne.
(b) Tristero.
(c) Nefastis.
(d) WASTE.

3. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Have a drink.
(b) Call Inverarity's wife.
(c) Go see her shrink.
(d) Contact their lawyer.

4. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
(b) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(c) Inverarity wrote a song about it.
(d) Inverarity listed it in his will.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.

2. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

3. Stanley Koteks tells Oedipa ________________ is a "symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society."

4. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?

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.

(see the answer key)

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