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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) Roseman.
(b) Rothman.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Rutgers.
2. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(b) What Inverarity said about her.
(c) The name of the other actor in the movie.
(d) What his acting name was.
3. Why does Dr. Hilarius call Oedipa at 3 a.m.?
(a) To counsel her about Mucho.
(b) To return her phone call.
(c) To ask why she isn't taking her tranqulizers.
(d) To ask why she isn't taking her vitamins.
4. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?
(a) "I hate that product."
(b) "I know that actress" or "I turned that one down."
(c) "Inverarity's" or "big block of shares."
(d) "I own shares in that."
5. What is the name of the theater where Metzger and Oedipa see the Jacobean revenge play?
(a) Tank Theater.
(b) San Narciso Theater.
(c) Time Theater.
(d) Inverarity Theater.
6. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?
(a) A Monet painting.
(b) A modern Cinderella.
(c) A modern Rapunzel.
(d) A modern fairytale.
7. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
(a) The lights go out.
(b) Metzger falls asleep.
(c) The Parniods sing.
(d) Opedipa has a vision.
8. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Oedipa.
(c) Miles.
(d) Metzger.
9. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) Inverarity.
(b) The movie.
(c) Metzger.
(d) Music.
10. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
(a) A slow whirlwind and words she couldn't hear.
(b) Her last words to Mucho before she left.
(c) Words to a song she can't remember.
(d) Her last words to Inverarity whirling around her.
11. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?
(a) Liberated women.
(b) Boring plays.
(c) Bad acting.
(d) Long lines.
12. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?
(a) Mazatlan.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Acapulco.
(d) Buenos Aires.
13. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
(a) A three a.m. phone call last year from Inverarity.
(b) A marriage proposal from Inverarity.
(c) An urgent phone call from Inverarity asking her for help.
(d) A letter last year from Inverarity.
14. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity listed it in his will.
(b) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(c) Inverarity wrote a song about it.
(d) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
15. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cash Only.
(b) Cashit.
(c) Cashout.
(d) Cashiered.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?
2. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?
3. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
4. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
5. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?
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