1. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?
(a) He said she would be easy.
(b) He said she would have an easy time being executor.
(c) He said she wouldn't be easy.
(d) He said she was easy to talk to.

2. Who is Randolph Driblette?
(a) Leader of the Paranoids.
(b) Leader of the Peter Pinguid Society.
(c) Author of the Jacobean revenge play.
(d) Director of the Jacobean revenge play.

3. Genghis Cohen gives Oedipa a supposed translation from an article in an 1865 issue of Bibliotheque des Timbrophiles, which recounts a great schism in Tristero during what time period?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(c) The Black Plague.
(d) The American Revolution.

4. Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol?
(a) Gang jackets of delinquents at the city beach.
(b) Written in chalk on a sidewalk.
(c) A message in a fortune cookie.
(d) An herbalist's window in Chinatown.

5. What is the name of the religious splinter group Bortz attributes to changing the pornographic version of the play?
(a) Thurn and Taxis.
(b) Scurvhamites.
(c) Schumites.
(d) Purtians.

Short Answer 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?

2. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?

3. What is on the cover of the book she purchases at Zapf's Used Books?

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

5. Oedipa drives around the freeway at night without her lights on, and then ends up in a phone booth calling which bar in San Francisco?

(see the answer key)

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