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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.
(c) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(d) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.

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

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

4. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A nightclub.
(b) A Turkish bath.
(c) A resturant.
(d) A hotel.

5. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?
(a) Memories of competition.
(b) Metamorphism.
(c) Mental acuity.
(d) Memories of combat.

6. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
(a) Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(b) A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(c) Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.
(d) American GI's who perished during World War II.

7. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?
(a) Military recruiting posters with Uncle Sam.
(b) Her Uncle Sal.
(c) Military recruiting posters with a marine.
(d) Her father's poster collection.

8. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?
(a) The first secret postal service.
(b) The first military confrontation between Iran and America.
(c) The first anti-communist rally in America.
(d) The first military confrontation between Russia and America.

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

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

11. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
(a) Metzger falls asleep.
(b) The Parniods sing.
(c) Opedipa has a vision.
(d) The lights go out.

12. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
(a) Her last words to Mucho before she left.
(b) Her last words to Inverarity whirling around her.
(c) A slow whirlwind and words she couldn't hear.
(d) Words to a song she can't remember.

13. What is the name of the actor who will play Metzger in a pilot for a TV series?
(a) Manic Depresso.
(b) Marvin Di Pizario.
(c) Maas De Presso.
(d) Manny Di Presso.

14. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

15. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
(a) A postcard of San Francisco.
(b) A circuit card she once saw in a transistor radio.
(c) The song "I Want to Kiss Your Feet."
(d) Her hometown of Kinneret.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occupation of Mucho Maas?

2. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?

3. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?

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. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?

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