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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

2. What is on the cover of the book she purchases at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A WASTE symbol.
(b) A Skull.
(c) A Tristero.
(d) The Nefastis Machine.

3. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?
(a) Nine.
(b) Five.
(c) Eight.
(d) Six.

4. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Sacramento.

5. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.
(a) The Court's Revenge.
(b) The Courier's Tragedy.
(c) The Court's Tragedy.
(d) The Courier's Tragic Story.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?

3. Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol?

4. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?

5. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?

(see the answer key)

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