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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.
(a) The Transmissions.
(b) The Transmitters.
(c) The Tretero.
(d) The Tristero.

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

4. 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.

5. 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 Tressero symbol.
(b) The WASTE symbol.
(c) The Pynchon symbol.
(d) The Postal symbol.

6. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?
(a) Sensible.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Secretive.

7. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?
(a) Be sole proprietor for his business.
(b) Be godmother to his children.
(c) Inherit his estate.
(d) Be executor of his estate.

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

9. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.
(b) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter-free process.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter process.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.

10. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
(a) "Inverarity's" or "big block of shares."
(b) "I own shares in that."
(c) "I know that actress" or "I turned that one down."
(d) "I hate that product."

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

12. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?
(a) He said she would be easy.
(b) He said she wouldn't be easy.
(c) He said she was easy to talk to.
(d) He said she would have an easy time being executor.

13. 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) Currency.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Contentment.

14. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?
(a) Peter Pinguid Society.
(b) Disgruntled.
(c) Civil War Civilians.
(d) Pete Seger Society.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?

2. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?

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

4. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?

5. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?

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