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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa a Pony Express stamp from 1940 with the _______ symbol on the back.
(a) Yoyodyne.
(b) Tristero.
(c) Nefastis.
(d) WASTE.

2. While wandering amongst the tourists in downtown San Francisco, Oedipa sees what on a lapel pin?
(a) Maxwell's demon.
(b) KCUF radio symbol.
(c) WASTE symbol.
(d) Thurn and Tassis.

3. What is the name of the religious splinter group Bortz attributes to changing the pornographic version of the play?
(a) Schumites.
(b) Purtians.
(c) Thurn and Taxis.
(d) Scurvhamites.

4. What was the name of the author of the preface of the "Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger," who Oedipa travels to the Cal State campus to find?
(a) Emory Bortz.
(b) Stanley Koteks.
(c) John Nefastis.
(d) Clerk Maxwell.

5. On her way to visit Emory Bortz, what building does Oedipa see burned down?
(a) The Tank Theater.
(b) KCUF radio station.
(c) Vespers House.
(d) Zapf's Used Books.

6. After losing noble patronage, the majority of Tristero members fled to where during 1849-50?
(a) America.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

7. Who is Genghis Cohen?
(a) A philosopher.
(b) A philanthropist.
(c) A philatelist.
(d) A psychiatrist.

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

9. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) His forgiveness.
(b) LSD.
(c) Money.
(d) A divorce.

10. Why does Oedipa return to Kinneret to see Dr. Hilarius?
(a) To get hallucinogenic drugs.
(b) To get tranquilzers.
(c) To see if she is suffering from psychosis.
(d) To tell him she longer wants to be his patient.

11. Who does Dr. Hilarius think the police are when they come to his clinic?
(a) Tristero agents.
(b) CIA.
(c) Thurn and Taxis agents.
(d) Israelis.

12. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.
(a) Generic
(b) Funny
(c) Erratic
(d) Sad

13. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?
(a) A young man waltzes her around the ballroom.
(b) She finds Mucho waiting in her room.
(c) She sleeps wtih John Nefastis.
(d) She sees the ghost of Inverarity.

14. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) Oakland.

15. The Paranoids sing a song recounting how men like __________ seduce younger women?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Humbert Humbert.
(c) Metzger.
(d) Miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bortz suggests to Oedipa that Tristero might have caused ______ simply in order to issue the Proclamation of the 9th Frimaire, An III, ending the sanctioned postal monopoly.

2. In the time period that brought the creation of The Tristero organization, what was the name of the organization that ran the sanctioned mail routes?

3. Oedipa's hotel room in the Berkeley hills contains a reproduction of whose painting?

4. Who does Oedipa dream about as she sleeps in the hotel in Berkeley?

5. Stanley Koteks tells Oedipa ________________ is a "symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society."

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