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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bortz leads Oedipa into a study to view woodcut illustrations from the pornographic version of the play. What does she see hovering in the background of the obscene images?
(a) Trystero.
(b) Love.
(c) Death.
(d) WASTE symbol.

2. Genghis Cohen told Oedipa, during their discussion about the meanings behind the stamps, that he had never heard of an _______ year tradition of postal fraud.
(a) 600.
(b) 100.
(c) 900.
(d) 800.

3. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(b) What Inverarity said about her.
(c) The name of the other actor in the movie.
(d) What his acting name was.

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?
(a) Communicating with Maxwell's Demon.
(b) Communicating with sensitives.
(c) A seance.
(d) A hallucination.

5. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Radio station disc jockey.
(b) Cattle rancher.
(c) Used car salesman.
(d) Real estate mogul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?

2. When Oedipa returns to the bar near the Yoyodyne plant, who does she find surrounded by women and dressed in army fatigues as if he were a guerrilla leader?

3. Oedipa goes to Zapf's Used Books to buy a copy of what book?

4. Who does Oedipa find at an all-night Mexican diner in San Francisco?

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

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