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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. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?
(a) The Sex Pistols.
(b) The Eagles.
(c) The Beach Boys.
(d) The Beatles.

2. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A copy of the Bible.
(b) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.
(c) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(d) A copy of the Trystero.

3. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(b) Inverarity wrote a song about it.
(c) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
(d) Inverarity listed it in his will.

4. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
(a) Words to a song she can't remember.
(b) A slow whirlwind and words she couldn't hear.
(c) Her last words to Mucho before she left.
(d) Her last words to Inverarity whirling around her.

5. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) The Scope.
(b) The Sound.
(c) The Scuttle.
(d) The Scoop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the group that Mike Fallopian talks about to Oedipa and Metzger?

2. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?

3. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.

4. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?

5. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is scribbled next to a message advertising the WASTE group on the bathroom wall of The Scope?

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

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

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

5. Why is Di Presso hiding in a boat at Fangoso Lagoons to avoid his client?

6. What is the plot of the movie that Metzger starred in as a child?

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

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

9. What aspect of Mucho's job does Oedipa compare to a religious officiant conducting a ceremony?

10. Describe the manager of the Echo Courts Motel.

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