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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?
(a) Memories of competition.
(b) Memories of combat.
(c) Mental acuity.
(d) Metamorphism.

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

3. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
(b) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(c) Inverarity wrote a song about it.
(d) Inverarity listed it in his will.

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

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

6. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?
(a) Mucho will commit adultery with a teenager.
(b) Mucho will be angry that she slept with Metzger.
(c) Mucho will quit his job.
(d) Mucho will join the circus.

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

8. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip poker.
(b) A game of poker.
(c) A game of strip Botticelli.
(d) A game of Botticelli cards.

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

10. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?
(a) The Eagles.
(b) The Sex Pistols.
(c) The Beach Boys.
(d) The Beatles.

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

12. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?
(a) A Monet painting.
(b) A modern Rapunzel.
(c) A modern Cinderella.
(d) A modern fairytale.

13. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) Electronic.
(b) Alternative.
(c) Country.
(d) Classical.

14. What kind of experiment does Dr. Hilarius want Oedipa to take part in?
(a) An experiment in which vitamins are given to housewives.
(b) An experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs are given to monkeys.
(c) An experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs are given to housewives.
(d) An experiment in which birth control drugs are given to housewives.

15. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A can of mace.
(b) A can of deodorant.
(c) A can of propane.
(d) A can of hairspray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?

2. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?

3. Who is Randolph Driblette?

4. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?

5. What is the name of the theater where Metzger and Oedipa see the Jacobean revenge play?

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