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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
(a) Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(b) Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.
(c) A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(d) American GI's who perished during World War II.

2. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?
(a) She slaps Metzger.
(b) She begins to laugh.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She kisses Metzger.

3. Oedipa returns to Echo Courts to find the Paranoids in shock because _________ ran off with one of their girlfriends.
(a) Mucho.
(b) Miles.
(c) Humbert Humbert.
(d) Metzger.

4. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A can of deodorant.
(b) A can of hairspray.
(c) A can of propane.
(d) A can of mace.

5. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter-free process.
(b) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter process.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?

2. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?

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

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. 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 ____________.

(see the answer key)

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