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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who saves Oedipa, Metzger and their friends after they are stranded on the island in the middle of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Fangoso Lagoons Diving Team.
(b) Fangoso Lagoons Security Force.
(c) San Narciso Police.
(d) Inverarity's Security Force.

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

4. What is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?
(a) Wendell.
(b) Perry.
(c) Pierce.
(d) Walter.

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

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

7. 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 postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The movie company owned by Metger.
(c) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.

8. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Miles.
(c) Oedipa.
(d) Mucho.

9. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) Migraines.
(b) A crisis of conscience.
(c) A crisis of sadness.
(d) Acute consciousness.

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

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

12. 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) Preachers.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Priests.

13. When Oedipa goes backstage, Driblette tells her that words are like what?
(a) Flesh that must be given life.
(b) Bones that must be given life.
(c) Bones that must be buried.
(d) Flesh that must be buried.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Metzger?

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

3. Why does Dr. Hilarius call Oedipa at 3 a.m.?

4. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?

5. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?

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