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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Oedipa arrives at a German Baroque hotel in the Berkeley hills which is hosting a meeting of what organization?
(a) California Chapter of the American Hearing-impaired Assembly.
(b) California Chapter of the American Deaf-Mute Assembly.
(c) California Chapter of the American Blind Assembly.
(d) California Chapter of the American Scientist Assembly.

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

3. 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) Under the freeway
(d) At her hotel.

4. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.
(a) Surplus Value.
(b) Communist.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Open Markets.

5. When Oedipa visits Genghis Cohen for the first time, what does he give her to drink?
(a) German vodka.
(b) Dandelion vodka.
(c) German wine.
(d) Dandelion wine.

6. What does the Nefastis Machine do?
(a) Create Nuclear warheads.
(b) Sort postal symbols.
(c) Sort hot and cold molecules.
(d) Create thermodynamics.

7. Whose address in Berkeley does Stanley Koteks give to Oedipa?
(a) John Nefastis.
(b) Zapf's Used Books.
(c) The WASTE group.
(d) Pierce Inverarity.

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

9. Oedipa reads about Blobb's account of an attack near the Lake of Piety, which left all dead except Blobb and his servant. Who attacked them?
(a) Vatican brigands.
(b) Roman soldiers.
(c) Scurvhamites.
(d) Trystero brigands.

10. 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?
(a) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) The French Revolution.
(c) The Black Plague.
(d) The American Revolution.

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

12. According to Stanley Koteks, who are the only ones who can work the Nefastis Machine?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Demons.
(c) Sensitives.
(d) Demonstrators.

13. 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.
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The Black Plague.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Bolshevik Revolution.

14. What is the purpose of the group as explained by the tourist wearing the lapel pin?
(a) To help people fall in love.
(b) To help people not fall in love.
(c) It is a secret society of reformed sinners.
(d) It is a secret society of renegade postal workers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After arriving at Dr. Hilarius's clinic, Oedipa is told what by the doctor's assistant?

3. What is the name of the religious splinter group Bortz attributes to changing the pornographic version of the play?

4. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?

5. Oedipa drives around the freeway at night without her lights on, and then ends up in a phone booth calling which bar in San Francisco?

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