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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oedipa pieces together an account of how the Tristero organization began in what year?
(a) 1577.
(b) 1567.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1967.

2. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cash Only.
(b) Cashit.
(c) Cashiered.
(d) Cashout.

3. Who is the television character that Oedipa's lawyer is writing about?
(a) JR Ewing.
(b) Perry Mason.
(c) Tyler Perry.
(d) Ben Matlock.

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) Communist.
(b) Open Markets.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Surplus Value.

5. Who does Oedipa find at an all-night Mexican diner in San Francisco?
(a) Jesus Arrabal.
(b) Randolph Driblette.
(c) John Nefastis.
(d) Grace Bortz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?

2. Suffering nightmares and various symptoms, Oedipa goes to a doctor and requests a pregnancy test under what name?

3. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?

4. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?

5. Who is Randolph Driblette?

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