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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Genghis Cohen, who organized the courier service in the Bergamo region around 1290?
(a) Thurn Taxis.
(b) Omedio Tassis.
(c) Thurn Tassis.
(d) Oliver Tass.

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

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

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

6. When Oedipa returns to the bar near the Yoyodyne plant, who does she find surrounded by women and dressed in army fatigues as if he were a guerrilla leader?
(a) Miles.
(b) Mucho.
(c) Mike Fallopian.
(d) Metzger.

7. 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 hallucination.
(b) A seance.
(c) Communicating with Maxwell's Demon.
(d) Communicating with sensitives.

8. 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 Scientist Assembly.
(b) California Chapter of the American Deaf-Mute Assembly.
(c) California Chapter of the American Hearing-impaired Assembly.
(d) California Chapter of the American Blind Assembly.

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

10. 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.

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

12. What does Stanley Koteks ask Oedipa to look into at Yoyodyne when he thinks she is connected to the company?
(a) Clause on research.
(b) Smoking ban.
(c) Mandatory teamwork.
(d) Clause on patents.

13. 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) Thermodynamics.
(c) Communist.
(d) Open Markets.

14. 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?
(a) Immorality Anonymous.
(b) Love Annonymors.
(c) Thurn and Tassis.
(d) Inamorati Anonymous.

15. Bortz imagines one visionary militant addressing a group of Tristero members in a tavern to propose a merger with official postal couriers. What name does he give to this visionary?
(a) Conan.
(b) Kenny.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Konrad.

Short Answer Questions

1. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.

2. When Oedipa visits Genghis Cohen for the first time, what does he give her to drink?

3. When Mucho interviews Oedipa after she leaves Dr. Hilarius's office, what name does her call her?

4. Genghis Cohen told Oedipa, during their discussion about the meanings behind the stamps, that he had never heard of an _______ year tradition of postal fraud.

5. What is Stanley Koteks doodling when Oedipa comes up to his desk?

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