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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) A European pleasure-casino.
(b) A European cruise ship.
(c) A clubhouse.
(d) A skyscraper.

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

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

4. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?
(a) Mucho.
(b) The Paranoids.
(c) Di Presso.
(d) Inverarity.

5. 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 propane.
(b) A can of mace.
(c) A can of hairspray.
(d) A can of deodorant.

6. What name does Oedipa give to her series of revelations?
(a) The Tretero.
(b) The Transmitter.
(c) The Tristero.
(d) The Transmissions.

7. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Tape all Mucho's office interactions.
(b) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(c) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.
(d) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.

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

9. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.
(a) Puritans.
(b) Priests.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Preachers.

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

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

12. Who is Metzger?
(a) Inverarity's business partner.
(b) Oedipa's lawyer.
(c) The co-executor of Inverarity's will.
(d) The co-executor of Oedipa's will.

13. What is the current occupation of the actor who is playing Metzger in the TV pilot?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Radio disc jockey.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Used car salesman.

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

15. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?
(a) Yoyodyne's inter-office delivery system.
(b) Inverarity's money.
(c) Inverarity's name and image.
(d) Yoyodyne's office supplies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?

3. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?

4. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?

5. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?

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