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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bortz imagines one visionary militant addressing a group of Tristero members in a tavern to propose a merger with official postal couriers. What name does he give to this visionary?
(a) Kenny.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Conan.
(d) Konrad.

2. Who answers the phone when Oedipa tries to call Driblette from her motel room in Chapter 6?
(a) Driblette's mother.
(b) Grace Bortz.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) A graduate student.

3. When Oedipa calls Emory Bortz, what does his wife Grace tell her Bortz is doing at the moment?
(a) Pouring drinks.
(b) Writing.
(c) Killing their children.
(d) Pouring a patio.

4. Oedipa goes to Zapf's Used Books to buy a copy of what book?
(a) Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(b) Real Revenge Plays.
(c) The Bible.
(d) The Trystero.

5. Who does Oedipa find in a pseudo-Mexican apartment building in Berkeley?
(a) John Nefastis.
(b) Randolph Driblette.
(c) Emory Bortz.
(d) Clerk Maxwell.

6. As Oedipa drives to Berkeley to find the source text for the Jacobean revenge play, she misses the exit to where?
(a) The Bay Bridge.
(b) The wharf.
(c) Kinneret.
(d) The hotel.

7. As Oedipa walks around the college campus in Chapter 5, she realizes her education made her what?
(a) Unfit for protests.
(b) Unfit for being a sensitive.
(c) Unfit for deciphering texts.
(d) Unfit for this world.

8. Genghis Cohen informs Oedipa that a mysterious new bidder requested to view the stamps in lot 49, but the request was denied for what reason?
(a) He was in prison.
(b) He refused to give his credit card number.
(c) The agent was on the list of prohibited bidders.
(d) The agent refused to give the bidder's name.

9. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.
(a) Los Angelos.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) The Bay Bridge.
(d) The wharf.

10. Tristero y Calavera set up his own postal system and called himself El Desheredado, which meant what?
(a) The Dangerous.
(b) The Disenfranchised.
(c) The Disinherited.
(d) The Desperate.

11. The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what?
(a) Mail delivery.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Jacobean revenge plays.

12. After finding a copy of Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger, Oedipa discovers a note that says "trystero" may be derived from the Italian word "triste." What does this word mean?
(a) Third.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Depraved.
(d) Mysterious.

13. Dr. Hilarius protests that if he had been a real Nazi he would have become a Jungian. Instead, he chose to follow __________.
(a) Maslov
(b) Freud
(c) Marx
(d) Hitler

14. Who does Oedipa try to call from a phone booth before she heads to the bookstore?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Mucho.
(c) Driblette.
(d) Fallopian.

15. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?
(a) Behind Nefastis' apartment.
(b) On a bus.
(c) At her hotel.
(d) Under the freeway

Short Answer Questions

1. As Oedipa sits in the apartment in Berkeley concentrating and awaiting the demon's message, what is on the TV?

2. Genghis Cohen told Oedipa, during their discussion about the meanings behind the stamps, that he had never heard of an _______ year tradition of postal fraud.

3. Genghis Cohen gives Oedipa a supposed translation from an article in an 1865 issue of Bibliotheque des Timbrophiles, which recounts a great schism in Tristero during what time period?

4. According to Stanley Koteks, who are the only ones who can work the Nefastis Machine?

5. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.

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