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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The name Tristero can be traced back to Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera who claimed to be _________ and thus the rightful Grand Master of the Post.
(a) The true lord of the Committee of Eighteen.
(b) The true lord of Ohama.
(c) The true lord of Ohain.
(d) The true lord of Orange.

2. Suffering nightmares and various symptoms, Oedipa goes to a doctor and requests a pregnancy test under what name?
(a) Mrs. Metzger.
(b) Grace Bortz.
(c) Mrs. Maas.
(d) Enda Mosh.

3. At Professor Bortz's house, Oedipa asks Bortz to tell her about the historical Wharfinger. Bortz sneers, saying he can only talk about __________.
(a) Words.
(b) Trystero.
(c) Love.
(d) WASTE.

4. Bortz leads Oedipa into a study to view woodcut illustrations from the pornographic version of the play. What does she see hovering in the background of the obscene images?
(a) Love.
(b) Trystero.
(c) WASTE symbol.
(d) Death.

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

6. What is on the cover of the book she purchases at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A Tristero.
(b) A Skull.
(c) The Nefastis Machine.
(d) A WASTE symbol.

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

8. What is the name of the home for senior citizens that Oedipa visits?
(a) Vestibule House.
(b) Vesperhaven House.
(c) Haven House.
(d) Vespers House.

9. 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?
(a) The Geek Way.
(b) The Scope.
(c) The Greek Way.
(d) The Accidental Meeting.

10. Oedipa recites the couplet from the play which mentions Trystero and Bortz and says the quote came from a pornographic version of the play which was held where?
(a) A Puritan settlement.
(b) Paris.
(c) San Francico.
(d) The Vatican.

11. 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) Mysterious.
(b) Third.
(c) Depraved.
(d) Deadly.

12. As Oedipa sits in the apartment in Berkeley concentrating and awaiting the demon's message, what is on the TV?
(a) Metzger's movie.
(b) News about Viet Nam.
(c) Cartoons.
(d) News about China.

13. How does Oedipa end up at the desk of Stanley Koteks?
(a) She gets lost on a tour of Yoyodyne.
(b) She is directed there by voices in her head.
(c) They are former lovers.
(d) She follows the WASTE symbols.

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

15. Genghis Cohen claims that the stamp, which depicts a Pony Express rider galloping out of a western fort into a black feather, is what?
(a) Rare.
(b) Priceless.
(c) Extinct.
(d) Counterfeit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Nefastis Machine do?

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

3. As Oedipa walks around the college campus in Chapter 5, she realizes her education made her what?

4. While wandering amongst the tourists in downtown San Francisco, Oedipa sees what on a lapel pin?

5. Oedipa returns to Echo Courts to find the Paranoids in shock because _________ ran off with one of their girlfriends.

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