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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol?
(a) A message in a fortune cookie.
(b) Written in chalk on a sidewalk.
(c) Gang jackets of delinquents at the city beach.
(d) An herbalist's window in Chinatown.

2. In the time period that brought the creation of The Tristero organization, what was the name of the organization that ran the sanctioned mail routes?
(a) Thurn and Taxis.
(b) WASTE.
(c) Committee of Eighteen.
(d) Orange Brigade.

3. 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 renegade postal workers.
(d) It is a secret society of reformed sinners.

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

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

6. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) His forgiveness.
(b) A divorce.
(c) LSD.
(d) Money.

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

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

9. The Paranoids sing a song recounting how men like __________ seduce younger women?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Humbert Humbert.
(c) Miles.
(d) Mucho.

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

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

12. What kind of stamp does Genghis Cohen invite Oedipa over to view that bears the muted post horn, belly-up badger, and a motto referring to Tristero's empire?
(a) An old Russian stamp.
(b) An old European stamp.
(c) An old French stamp.
(d) An old American stamp.

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

14. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) San Francisco.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After losing noble patronage, the majority of Tristero members fled to where during 1849-50?

2. Oedipa goes to the stamp auction to somehow confront the mysterious bidder for lot 49 and she encounters who?

3. Oedipa pieces together an account of how the Tristero organization began in what year?

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

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

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