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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Bolshevik Revolution.
(b) The American Revolution.
(c) The Black Plague.
(d) The French Revolution.

2. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?
(a) He gives her LSD.
(b) He makes love to her.
(c) He takes her hostage.
(d) He begs her to run away with him.

3. 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

4. On her way to visit Emory Bortz, what building does Oedipa see burned down?
(a) KCUF radio station.
(b) Vespers House.
(c) Zapf's Used Books.
(d) The Tank Theater.

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

6. What was the name of the author of the preface of the "Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger," who Oedipa travels to the Cal State campus to find?
(a) Clerk Maxwell.
(b) Emory Bortz.
(c) John Nefastis.
(d) Stanley Koteks.

7. 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) Open Markets.
(b) Surplus Value.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Communist.

8. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?
(a) She finds Mucho waiting in her room.
(b) A young man waltzes her around the ballroom.
(c) She sees the ghost of Inverarity.
(d) She sleeps wtih John Nefastis.

9. Oedipa reads about Blobb's account of an attack near the Lake of Piety, which left all dead except Blobb and his servant. Who attacked them?
(a) Scurvhamites.
(b) Vatican brigands.
(c) Trystero brigands.
(d) Roman soldiers.

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

11. 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) Orange Brigade.
(b) Thurn and Taxis.
(c) WASTE.
(d) Committee of Eighteen.

12. 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?
(a) Third.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Depraved.
(d) Deadly.

13. What does Oedipa see on an airmail stamp with a jet flying by the Capital dome that is on the letter the old drunk asks her to mail?
(a) A WASTE symbol on the plane.
(b) A dead badger on top of the dome.
(c) A suspicious black figure flying the plane.
(d) A suspicious black figure on top of the dome.

14. 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) Cartoons.
(c) News about Viet Nam.
(d) Metzger's movie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Oedipa calls Emory Bortz, what does his wife Grace tell her Bortz is doing at the moment?

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

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. In Chapter 4, who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks she is?

5. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?

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