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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 is the actual first name of Oedipa's husband, Mucho Maas?
(a) Walter.
(b) Perry.
(c) Wendell.
(d) Pierce.

2. Who accompanies Oedipa and Metzger to Fangoso Lagoons for the day?
(a) Richard Wharfinger.
(b) Mike Fallopian and his girlfriend.
(c) The Paranoids and their girlfriends.
(d) Mucho Maas.

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.
(a) Puritans.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Priests.
(d) Preachers.

4. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?
(a) Pills nor the doctor.
(b) God.
(c) Pills nor psycho babble.
(d) Mucho.

5. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?
(a) Be sole proprietor for his business.
(b) Be godmother to his children.
(c) Inherit his estate.
(d) Be executor of his estate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what in particular does Oedipa compare herself to?

2. What do the members of Mike Fallopian's group use on the sly?

3. Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Inverarity resembles the plot of a Jacobean revenge play entitled ______________.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. How is the sign advertising the Echo Courts in the likeness of Marilyn Monroe?

9. Describe the manager of the Echo Courts Motel.

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

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