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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 receiving Inverarity's letter, which of the following does Oedipa NOT do for the afternoon?
(a) Call friends.
(b) Mix cocktails.
(c) Read book reviews.
(d) Work in her garden.

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

3. Oedipa compares Mucho's angst about his work to what?
(a) Memories of competition.
(b) Metamorphism.
(c) Mental acuity.
(d) Memories of combat.

4. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(c) The movie company owned by Metger.
(d) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.

5. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Roseman.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Rothman.
(d) Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Metzger complain about when Oedipa tells him she is going backstage after the play?

2. What is the name of the theater where Metzger and Oedipa see the Jacobean revenge play?

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

4. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?

5. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Pierce Inverarity die?

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

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

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

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

6. How can electronic music be performed live at The Scope bar?

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

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

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

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

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