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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the auctioneer who will be crying the lots the day Oedipa goes?
(a) Lorne Passering.
(b) Lone Passtime.
(c) Loren Passerine.
(d) Luke Passion.

2. Bortz suggests to Oedipa that Tristero might have caused ______ simply in order to issue the Proclamation of the 9th Frimaire, An III, ending the sanctioned postal monopoly.
(a) The American Revolution.
(b) The Black Plague.
(c) The Bolshevik Revolution.
(d) The French Revolution.

3. 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 has gone crazy.
(d) He is moving to China.

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

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

6. Oedipa goes to Zapf's Used Books to buy a copy of what book?
(a) Real Revenge Plays.
(b) The Trystero.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Jacobean Revenge Plays.

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

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

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

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

11. The name Tristero can be traced back to Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera who claimed to be _________ and thus the rightful Grand Master of the Post.
(a) The true lord of Orange.
(b) The true lord of the Committee of Eighteen.
(c) The true lord of Ohain.
(d) The true lord of Ohama.

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

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

14. 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) Nefastis.
(b) Trystero.
(c) WASTE.
(d) Yoyodyne.

15. Bortz hands Oedipa an ancient book about the _________ travels of Dr. Diocletian Blobb.
(a) American.
(b) Roman.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. While wandering amongst the tourists in downtown San Francisco, Oedipa sees what on a lapel pin?

2. Dr. Hilarius protests that if he had been a real Nazi he would have become a Jungian. Instead, he chose to follow __________.

3. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?

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

5. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?

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