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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A copy of the Bible.
(b) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(c) A copy of the Trystero.
(d) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.

4. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A resturant.
(b) A Turkish bath.
(c) A nightclub.
(d) A hotel.

5. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?
(a) Richard Wharfinger.
(b) Mike Fallopian and his girlfriend.
(c) Mucho Maas.
(d) The Paranoids and their girlfriends.

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

7. What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week?
(a) Make one meeting or get fined.
(b) Make one announcement or get fined.
(c) Send one secret coded message or get fined.
(d) Send one letter or get fined.

8. Metzger objects that if Mike Fallopian's hero was anti-Communist he could not also be against ______________.
(a) Postal service.
(b) Marxism.
(c) Industrial capitalism.
(d) Democracy.

9. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?
(a) God.
(b) Pills nor psycho babble.
(c) Mucho.
(d) Pills nor the doctor.

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

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

12. 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 Russia and America.
(c) The first anti-communist rally in America.
(d) The first military confrontation between Iran and America.

13. When Oedipa goes backstage, Driblette tells her that words are like what?
(a) Bones that must be buried.
(b) Flesh that must be given life.
(c) Bones that must be given life.
(d) Flesh that must be buried.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?

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

3. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?

4. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?

5. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?

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