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

2. What does Mucho Maas suffer from on a regular basis?
(a) A crisis of sadness.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Acute consciousness.
(d) A crisis of conscience.

3. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cashiered.
(b) Cashit.
(c) Cashout.
(d) Cash Only.

4. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A Turkish bath.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A resturant.
(d) A nightclub.

5. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) Music.
(b) The movie.
(c) Inverarity.
(d) Metzger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?

2. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?

3. What does Metzger theorize that the members of Mike Fallopian's group would be opposed to?

4. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?

5. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the larger setting of The Crying of Lot 49?

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

5. How did Mucho Maas feel about the used cars his customers brought in for trade-in?

6. Why does the moment Oedipa sees San Narciso from a hilltop have a religious quality to her?

7. What do the Paranoids set outside the door of Oedipa's room?

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

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

10. According to Mike Fallopian, what eventually happened to Peter Pinguid?

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