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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Priceless.
(b) Extinct.
(c) Counterfeit.
(d) Rare.

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

3. Oedipa returns to Echo Courts to find the Paranoids in shock because _________ ran off with one of their girlfriends.
(a) Mucho.
(b) Humbert Humbert.
(c) Metzger.
(d) Miles.

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

5. Oedipa, accompanied by Bortz and the graduate students, attends the funeral and tries to reach out to some remaining trace of life in the grave in a similar fashion to what?
(a) A seance.
(b) A hallucination.
(c) Communicating with sensitives.
(d) Communicating with Maxwell's Demon.

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

7. 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) Maslov
(c) Hitler
(d) Marx

8. While walking down a stretch of railroad track, Oedipa remembers that Inverarity had once told her the secret to success was what?
(a) Trust no one.
(b) Buy low, sell high.
(c) Keep it bouncing.
(d) Keep it going.

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

10. In Chapter 4, who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks she is?
(a) A design engineer.
(b) A stockholder.
(c) A board member.
(d) A patent inspector.

11. Where does Stanley Koteks tell Oedipa to go instead of Berkeley after he becomes distrustful of her?
(a) Kinneret.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Narciso.

12. After arriving at Dr. Hilarius's clinic, Oedipa is told what by the doctor's assistant?
(a) He is moving to China.
(b) He is in love with Oedipa.
(c) He is head of the WASTE organization.
(d) He has gone crazy.

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

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

15. 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) Clerk Maxwell.
(d) John Nefastis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?

2. The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what?

3. 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?

4. Suffering nightmares and various symptoms, Oedipa goes to a doctor and requests a pregnancy test under what name?

5. 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.

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