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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) Money.
(b) His forgiveness.
(c) A divorce.
(d) LSD.

2. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?
(a) On a bus.
(b) Behind Nefastis' apartment.
(c) Under the freeway
(d) At her hotel.

3. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.
(a) Conflict.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Currency.
(d) Curiosity.

4. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Open Markets.
(c) Communist.
(d) Surplus Value.

5. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A copy of the Trystero.
(b) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.
(c) A copy of the Bible.
(d) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.

Short Answer Questions

1. While wandering amongst the tourists in downtown San Francisco, Oedipa sees what on a lapel pin?

2. According to Genghis Cohen, who organized the courier service in the Bergamo region around 1290?

3. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

4. Who does Oedipa dream about as she sleeps in the hotel in Berkeley?

5. What is the name of the theater where Metzger and Oedipa see the Jacobean revenge play?

(see the answer key)

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