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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. Oedipa compares the initial contact with _____________ to a performance where the costumes of historical figuration are thickly layered.
(a) The Transmitters.
(b) The Tretero.
(c) The Tristero.
(d) The Transmissions.

2. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?
(a) Baby Love.
(b) Baby Joe.
(c) Baby Jane.
(d) Baby Igor.

3. 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?
(a) He climbs up on the bar, and starts shooting into the crowd.
(b) He starts an argument with Mike Fallopian.
(c) He climbs up on the bar and starts throwing envelopes into the crowd.
(d) He yells "Fire!" and everyone runs.

4. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?
(a) Sensible.
(b) Secretive.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Sensitive.

5. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
(a) Her hometown of Kinneret.
(b) A postcard of San Francisco.
(c) The song "I Want to Kiss Your Feet."
(d) A circuit card she once saw in a transistor radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?

2. What is the name of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?

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. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?

5. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the larger setting of The Crying of Lot 49?

2. What is the metaphor Oedipa is referring to about The Trystero and the costumes of historical figures?

3. How does Oedipa imagine Pierce Inverarity might have died?

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

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

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

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

8. What does Oedipa mean in Chapter 1 when she tells Dr. Hilarius that she is already having hallucinations?

9. What is unusual about the postmark on the letter Oedipa receives from Mucho?

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

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