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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 Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A TV remote.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) A candelabra.
(d) A TV antenna.

2. As Oedipa drives to Berkeley to find the source text for the Jacobean revenge play, she misses the exit to where?
(a) The Bay Bridge.
(b) The hotel.
(c) Kinneret.
(d) The wharf.

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

4. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?
(a) A modern Cinderella.
(b) A modern Rapunzel.
(c) A modern fairytale.
(d) A Monet painting.

5. Where does Stanley Koteks tell Oedipa to go instead of Berkeley after he becomes distrustful of her?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Kinneret.
(d) San Narciso.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?

2. What song do the Paranoids play for Oedipa and Metzger the first night in the motel?

3. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?

4. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.

5. Where does Genghis Cohen want to send several of the stamps he is reviewing for Oedipa?

(see the answer key)

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