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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 reason for Tony Jaguar's lawsuit against Pierce Inverarity?
(a) He claims Inverarity never gave him a shipment for which he had paid in advance.
(b) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of bones.
(c) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of drugs.
(d) He claims that Inveraity made false statement about him.

2. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Used car salesman.
(b) Cattle rancher.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Radio station disc jockey.

3. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.
(b) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(c) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.
(d) Tape all Mucho's office interactions.

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

5. What kind of experiment does Dr. Hilarius want Oedipa to take part in?
(a) An experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs are given to housewives.
(b) An experiment in which birth control drugs are given to housewives.
(c) An experiment in which vitamins are given to housewives.
(d) An experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs are given to monkeys.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?

2. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

3. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.

4. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

5. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. When did Pierce Inverarity die?

6. Why does the manager of the Echo Courts think Oedipa is trying to seduce him?

7. Describe the manager of the Echo Courts Motel.

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

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

10. Who was the Peter Pinguid Society named for?

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