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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the time period that brought the creation of The Tristero organization, what was the name of the organization that ran the sanctioned mail routes?
(a) WASTE.
(b) Committee of Eighteen.
(c) Thurn and Taxis.
(d) Orange Brigade.

2. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?
(a) Swampy.
(b) Fan dance.
(c) Swanky.
(d) Famous.

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

4. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
(b) Communism and Marxism.
(c) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
(d) Industrial capitalism and Communism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the author of the preface of the "Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger," who Oedipa travels to the Cal State campus to find?

2. Oedipa's hotel room in the Berkeley hills contains a reproduction of whose painting?

3. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?

4. Oedipa, accompanied by Bortz and the graduate students, attends the funeral and tries to reach out to some remaining trace of life in the grave in a similar fashion to what?

5. How does Oedipa end up at the desk of Stanley Koteks?

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