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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. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Mucho.
(c) Oedipa.
(d) Miles.

2. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
(a) A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(b) Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(c) Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.
(d) American GI's who perished during World War II.

3. Funch, Mucho's boss, accuses him of what in his interactions with people at work?
(a) Being a poor judge of character.
(b) Being too overtly sexual.
(c) Being too judgemental.
(d) Being too pushy.

4. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) He is disguised as a woman.
(b) He is disguised as one of the Paranoids
(c) He is hiding under a roller coaster in a skin-diving suit.
(d) He is hiding under a tarp in a skin-diving suit.

5. What is the name of Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?
(a) Fu-Mucho.
(b) Fraidycat.
(c) Fu-Manchu.
(d) Nannynana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?

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

3. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.

4. What will Oedipa have revelations about as she completes her task for Pierce Inverarity?

5. What is on the island in the middle of the artificial lake at Fangoso Lagoons?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Tony Jaguar get the bones that he sold to Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

2. In his phone call to Oedipa a year ago, what did Pierce Inverarity say about Mucho?

3. As Oedipa seeks a motel to escape the illusion of speed and freedom that driving provides, to what does she compare the road?

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

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

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

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

8. When did Pierce Inverarity die?

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

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

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