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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 has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?
(a) A lot of stress.
(b) A lack of intensity.
(c) A lack of adventure.
(d) A lack of romance.

2. 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.

3. 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 drugs.
(c) He claims that he was never paid for a shipment of bones.
(d) He claims that Inveraity made false statement about him.

4. What does Driblette tell Oedipa he found at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A copy of the Trystero.
(b) A copy of the Bible.
(c) An anthology entitled Jacobean Revenge Plays.
(d) An anthology entitled Real Revenge Plays.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

2. Despite a lack of specific facts, what does Mike Fallopian say took place in 1864?

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

4. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?

5. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of image does Funch the program director want Mucho to have at the radio station?

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

5. Describe the manager of the Echo Courts Motel.

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

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

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

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

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

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