View a FREE sample

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) An herbalist's window in Chinatown.
(b) A message in a fortune cookie.
(c) Written in chalk on a sidewalk.
(d) Gang jackets of delinquents at the city beach.

2. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?
(a) Coincidence.
(b) Communication.
(c) Control.
(d) Combustion.

3. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.
(a) Yoyodyne.
(b) Trystero.
(c) Nefastis.
(d) WASTE.

4. Oedipa goes to the stamp auction to somehow confront the mysterious bidder for lot 49 and she encounters who?
(a) Genghis Cohen.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Mucho Maas.
(d) John Nefastis.

5. When Mucho interviews Oedipa after she leaves Dr. Hilarius's office, what name does her call her?
(a) Oedipa Maas.
(b) Edna Mosh.
(c) Sweetie Pie.
(d) His Oedy.

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

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

8. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?
(a) Nine.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

9. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?
(a) On a bus.
(b) Under the freeway
(c) At her hotel.
(d) Behind Nefastis' apartment.

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

11. When Oedipa calls Emory Bortz, what does his wife Grace tell her Bortz is doing at the moment?
(a) Pouring a patio.
(b) Killing their children.
(c) Pouring drinks.
(d) Writing.

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

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

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

15. Genghis Cohen gives Oedipa a supposed translation from an article in an 1865 issue of Bibliotheque des Timbrophiles, which recounts a great schism in Tristero during what time period?
(a) The Black Plague.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) The French Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Oedipa return to Kinneret to see Dr. Hilarius?

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

5. Whose address in Berkeley does Stanley Koteks give to Oedipa?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 596 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample