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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 Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?
(a) Fraidycat.
(b) Fu-Manchu.
(c) Nannynana.
(d) Fu-Mucho.

2. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cashiered.
(b) Cashout.
(c) Cash Only.
(d) Cashit.

3. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?
(a) Kismet.
(b) Kinneret.
(c) McKenney.
(d) Kenney.

4. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of Botticelli cards.
(b) A game of strip Botticelli.
(c) A game of poker.
(d) A game of strip poker.

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

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

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

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

9. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
(a) Industrial capitalism and Communism.
(b) Industrial capitalism and Marxism.
(c) Democracy and Industrial capitalism.
(d) Communism and Marxism.

10. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) Country.
(b) Alternative.
(c) Classical.
(d) Electronic.

11. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
(a) A marriage proposal from Inverarity.
(b) An urgent phone call from Inverarity asking her for help.
(c) A letter last year from Inverarity.
(d) A three a.m. phone call last year from Inverarity.

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

13. Why does Dr. Hilarius call Oedipa at 3 a.m.?
(a) To return her phone call.
(b) To ask why she isn't taking her vitamins.
(c) To counsel her about Mucho.
(d) To ask why she isn't taking her tranqulizers.

14. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Inverarity.
(c) The movie.
(d) Music.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?

2. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?

3. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?

4. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?

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

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