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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks sent her to him as she comes upon him doodling at his desk at Yoyodyne?
(a) Kirby.
(b) John.
(c) Kelly.
(d) Thune.

2. Dr. Hilarius protests that if he had been a real Nazi he would have become a Jungian. Instead, he chose to follow __________.
(a) Maslov
(b) Marx
(c) Hitler
(d) Freud

3. 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) Committee of Eighteen.
(c) WASTE.
(d) Orange Brigade.

4. 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 Blind 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 Scientist Assembly.

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

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

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

8. Oedipa pieces together an account of how the Tristero organization began in what year?
(a) 1577.
(b) 1757.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1567.

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

10. Bortz leads Oedipa into a study to view woodcut illustrations from the pornographic version of the play. What does she see hovering in the background of the obscene images?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) Trystero.
(d) WASTE symbol.

11. 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 Accidental Meeting.
(b) The Geek Way.
(c) The Scope.
(d) The Greek Way.

12. What is Stanley Koteks doodling when Oedipa comes up to his desk?
(a) The sign of the Triads.
(b) The sign of the muted post horn.
(c) The symbol of a cancelled postmark.
(d) The Yoyodyne symbol.

13. 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.
(a) 100.
(b) 600.
(c) 800.
(d) 900.

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

15. Tristero y Calavera set up his own postal system and called himself El Desheredado, which meant what?
(a) The Desperate.
(b) The Disinherited.
(c) The Dangerous.
(d) The Disenfranchised.

Short Answer Questions

1. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa a Pony Express stamp from 1940 with the _______ symbol on the back.

2. What is the name of the home for senior citizens that Oedipa visits?

3. When Oedipa meets Mike Fallopian for the second time, he tells her it is difficult to find documentary proof of what?

4. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?

5. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.

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