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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) A crisis of conscience.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Acute consciousness.
(d) A crisis of sadness.

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

4. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The movie company owned by Metger.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.

5. Who is Genghis Cohen?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A philanthropist.
(c) A philosopher.
(d) A philatelist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?

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

3. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?

4. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.

5. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?

(see the answer key)

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