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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Rothman.
(b) Roseman.
(c) Rutgers.
(d) Rutherford.

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

4. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?
(a) A lack of romance.
(b) A lack of intensity.
(c) A lot of stress.
(d) A lack of adventure.

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

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

7. After receiving Inverarity's letter, which of the following does Oedipa NOT do for the afternoon?
(a) Call friends.
(b) Work in her garden.
(c) Read book reviews.
(d) Mix cocktails.

8. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.
(a) Contentment.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Currency.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?
(a) Bad acting.
(b) Long lines.
(c) Liberated women.
(d) Boring plays.

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

15. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being too judgemental.
(b) Being too overtly sexual.
(c) Being a poor judge of character.
(d) Being too pushy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?

2. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?

3. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?

4. When Oedipa goes backstage, Driblette tells her that words are like what?

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

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