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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A young female graduate student reveals to Oedipa that ________ drowned himself in the Pacific Ocean two days ago.
(a) Driblette.
(b) Nefastis.
(c) Metzger.
(d) Inverarity.

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

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

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 hotel.
(c) The wharf.
(d) Kinneret.

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

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

9. Stanley Koteks tells Oedipa ________________ is a "symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society."
(a) Patents.
(b) Science.
(c) Money.
(d) Teamwork.

10. Oedipa's hotel room in the Berkeley hills contains a reproduction of whose painting?
(a) Reynoldo Vanos.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Vincent Van Gogh.
(d) Remedios Varo.

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

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

13. Mr. Thoth, a resident of the home for senior citizens, wakes from a doze and mentions to Oedipa that his grandfather rode for the ______________.
(a) Couriers.
(b) Pony Express.
(c) Cavalry.
(d) Continental Railroad.

14. 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.

15. 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) Communicating with Maxwell's Demon.
(c) A hallucination.
(d) Communicating with sensitives.

Short Answer 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?

2. Oedipa has a conversation in a bar with the wearer of the lapel pin, and he tells her he is a member of what group?

3. Oedipa goes to Zapf's Used Books to buy a copy of what book?

4. Bortz hands Oedipa an ancient book about the _________ travels of Dr. Diocletian Blobb.

5. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?

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