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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?
(a) Yoyodyne's office supplies.
(b) Yoyodyne's inter-office delivery system.
(c) Inverarity's name and image.
(d) Inverarity's money.

2. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Run away with him.
(b) Pay the bill.
(c) Sleep with him.
(d) Go to a motel.

3. What does Metzger theorize that the members of Mike Fallopian's group would be opposed to?
(a) The electoral system.
(b) Any government monopoly such as the drug adminstration.
(c) Any government monopoly such as the postal system.
(d) Higher taxes.

4. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?
(a) Baby Igor.
(b) Baby Love.
(c) Baby Joe.
(d) Baby Jane.

5. What reaction does Oedipa have to what Inverarity said about her to Metzger?
(a) She begins to laugh.
(b) She slaps Metzger.
(c) She begins to cry.
(d) She kisses Metzger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?

2. Who saves Oedipa, Metzger and their friends after they are stranded on the island in the middle of Fangoso Lagoons?

3. Who is Metzger?

4. What was the previous occupation of Mucho Mass?

5. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. As she is losing the game of Strip Botticelli, what does Oedipa remove first?

2. What kind of image does Funch the program director want Mucho to have at the radio station?

3. What does Oedipa do in the bathroom of the Echo Courts motel room prior to playing a game with Metzger?

4. Describe the manager of the Echo Courts Motel.

5. Why is the introduction of the Yoyodyne mail deliverer at The Scope important to the plot of The Crying of Lot 49?

6. Why can't Mucho Maas drink honey in his coffee?

7. What does Oedipa mean in Chapter 1 when she tells Dr. Hilarius that she is already having hallucinations?

8. What is suggested by the name of Oedipa's psychiatrist, Dr. Hilarius?

9. What was strange about Pierce Inverarity's call to Oedipa a year ago?

10. What is Mike Fallopian trying to prove in his history of private mail delivery in the U.S.?

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