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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the theater where Metzger and Oedipa see the Jacobean revenge play?
(a) Time Theater.
(b) Inverarity Theater.
(c) Tank Theater.
(d) San Narciso Theater.

2. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) Inverarity.
(b) Metzger.
(c) The movie.
(d) Music.

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

4. 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?
(a) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.
(b) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.
(c) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(d) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.

5. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Miles.
(d) Oedipa.

6. What name does Oedipa give to her series of revelations?
(a) The Transmissions.
(b) The Transmitter.
(c) The Tretero.
(d) The Tristero.

7. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?
(a) Mexico City.
(b) Buenos Aires.
(c) Acapulco.
(d) Mazatlan.

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

9. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) A magical presence.
(c) Her marriage.
(d) Life after death.

10. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
(a) Words to a song she can't remember.
(b) A slow whirlwind and words she couldn't hear.
(c) Her last words to Mucho before she left.
(d) Her last words to Inverarity whirling around her.

11. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?
(a) McKenney.
(b) Kinneret.
(c) Kismet.
(d) Kenney.

12. What is Metzger's current occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Disc jockey.
(c) Actor.
(d) Real estate mogul.

13. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?
(a) A bar.
(b) A Tupperware party.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A psychiatrist appointment.

14. 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.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Priests.

15. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?
(a) The first secret postal service.
(b) The first military confrontation between Iran and America.
(c) The first anti-communist rally in America.
(d) The first military confrontation between Russia and America.

Short Answer Questions

1. After receiving Inverarity's letter, which of the following does Oedipa NOT do for the afternoon?

2. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

3. Who is Randolph Driblette?

4. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?

5. What song do the Paranoids play for Oedipa and Metzger the first night in the motel?

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