2. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?
(a) He was her lawyer.
(b) He was a former lover.
(c) He was her ex-husband.
(d) He was her brother.

3. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) The Scoop.
(b) The Sound.
(c) The Scope.
(d) The Scuttle.

4. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?
(a) Radio station disc jockey.
(b) Real estate mogul.
(c) Used car salesman.
(d) Lawyer.

5. What is the name of the actor who will play Metzger in a pilot for a TV series?
(a) Maas De Presso.
(b) Manic Depresso.
(c) Manny Di Presso.
(d) Marvin Di Pizario.

6. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cashout.
(b) Cashit.
(c) Cashiered.
(d) Cash Only.

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

8. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Go to a motel.
(b) Pay the bill.
(c) Run away with him.
(d) Sleep with him.

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

10. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?
(a) The WASTE symbol.
(b) The Postal symbol.
(c) The Tressero symbol.
(d) The Pynchon symbol.

11. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A nymph holding a white blossom.
(b) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(c) Echo, the god of wind.
(d) Athena, the goddess of love.

12. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) Migraines.
(b) Acute consciousness.
(c) A crisis of conscience.
(d) A crisis of sadness.

13. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) They won't cause cancer.
(b) They are made with bone instead of tobacco.
(c) They use bone charcoal filters.
(d) They have no filters.

14. Who is Metzger?
(a) Oedipa's lawyer.
(b) The co-executor of Oedipa's will.
(c) Inverarity's business partner.
(d) The co-executor of Inverarity's will.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?

3. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?

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

5. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?

(see the answer keys)

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