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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the previous occupation of Mucho Mass?
(a) Radio station disc jockey.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Used car salesman.

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

3. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A copy of the Trystero.
(b) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(c) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.
(d) A copy of the Bible.

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

5. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) A TV remote.
(c) A candelabra.
(d) A TV antenna.

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

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

8. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) Echo, the god of wind.
(b) Athena, the goddess of love.
(c) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(d) A nymph holding a white blossom.

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

10. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?
(a) A lack of romance.
(b) A lot of stress.
(c) A lack of adventure.
(d) A lack of intensity.

11. 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) Scientists.
(b) Priests.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Puritans.

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

13. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?
(a) A modern Rapunzel.
(b) A modern fairytale.
(c) A modern Cinderella.
(d) A Monet painting.

14. What is the reason for Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Pierce Inverarity?
(a) He claims Inverarity never gave him a shipment for which he had paid in advance.
(b) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of bones.
(c) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of drugs.
(d) He claims that Inveraity made false statement about him.

15. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Call Inverarity's wife.
(b) Go see her shrink.
(c) Have a drink.
(d) Contact their lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?

2. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?

3. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?

4. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?

5. 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 ____________.

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