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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Run away with him.
(b) Sleep with him.
(c) Pay the bill.
(d) Go to a motel.

2. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?
(a) Communication.
(b) Coincidence.
(c) Control.
(d) Combustion.

3. Mr. Thoth, a resident of the home for senior citizens, wakes from a doze and mentions to Oedipa that his grandfather rode for the ______________.
(a) Pony Express.
(b) Cavalry.
(c) Continental Railroad.
(d) Couriers.

4. In Chapter 4, who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks she is?
(a) A stockholder.
(b) A patent inspector.
(c) A design engineer.
(d) A board member.

5. Whose address in Berkeley does Stanley Koteks give to Oedipa?
(a) The WASTE group.
(b) John Nefastis.
(c) Zapf's Used Books.
(d) Pierce Inverarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what?

2. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?

3. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?

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

5. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?

(see the answer key)

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