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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 Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Rothman.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Roseman.
(d) Rutgers.
2. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being too overtly sexual.
(b) Being a poor judge of character.
(c) Being too pushy.
(d) Being too judgemental.
3. What is Metzger's current occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Disc jockey.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Actor.
4. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) The Sound.
(b) The Scoop.
(c) The Scuttle.
(d) The Scope.
5. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
(b) Communism and Marxism.
(c) Industrial capitalism and Communism.
(d) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
6. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.
(a) The Tristero.
(b) The Transmitters.
(c) The Tretero.
(d) The Transmissions.
7. 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 shooting into the crowd.
(b) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.
(c) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.
(d) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.
8. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Go to a motel.
(b) Run away with him.
(c) Sleep with him.
(d) Pay the bill.
9. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.
(b) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(c) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.
(d) Tape all Mucho's office interactions.
10. Who saves Oedipa, Metzger and their friends after they are stranded on the island in the middle of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Inverarity's Security Force.
(b) San Narciso Police.
(c) Fangoso Lagoons Security Force.
(d) Fangoso Lagoons Diving Team.
11. 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 secret postal service.
(d) The first military confrontation between Russia and America.
12. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?
(a) Yoyodyne's inter-office delivery system.
(b) Inverarity's name and image.
(c) Yoyodyne's office supplies.
(d) Inverarity's money.
13. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.
(a) The Court's Tragedy.
(b) The Court's Revenge.
(c) The Courier's Tragedy.
(d) The Courier's Tragic Story.
14. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?
(a) He was a former lover.
(b) He was her brother.
(c) He was her lawyer.
(d) He was her ex-husband.
15. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?
(a) Disgruntled.
(b) Civil War Civilians.
(c) Peter Pinguid Society.
(d) Pete Seger Society.
Short Answer Questions
1. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
2. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
3. What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week?
4. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?
5. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
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