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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Oedipa returns to the bar near the Yoyodyne plant, who does she find surrounded by women and dressed in army fatigues as if he were a guerrilla leader?
(a) Miles.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Mike Fallopian.
(d) Mucho.

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

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

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

7. Bortz imagines one visionary militant addressing a group of Tristero members in a tavern to propose a merger with official postal couriers. What name does he give to this visionary?
(a) Conan.
(b) Konrad.
(c) Kenny.
(d) Conrad.

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 research.
(c) Mandatory teamwork.
(d) Clause on patents.

9. 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) John Nefastis.
(c) Emory Bortz.
(d) Stanley Koteks.

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

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

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

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

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) Sacramento.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Oakland.
(d) San Francisco.

15. 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) WASTE.
(c) Nefastis.
(d) Trystero.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Oedipa, accompanied by Bortz and the graduate students, attends the funeral and tries to reach out to some remaining trace of life in the grave in a similar fashion to what?

3. 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?

4. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?

5. Oedipa has a conversation in a bar with the wearer of the lapel pin, and he tells her he is a member of what group?

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