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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. Genghis Cohen told Oedipa, during their discussion about the meanings behind the stamps, that he had never heard of an _______ year tradition of postal fraud.
(a) 100.
(b) 600.
(c) 900.
(d) 800.

2. Who does Oedipa dream about as she sleeps in the hotel in Berkeley?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Inverarity.
(c) Mucho.
(d) Driblette.

3. Stanley Koteks tells Oedipa ________________ is a "symptom of the gutlessness of the whole society."
(a) Patents.
(b) Teamwork.
(c) Science.
(d) Money.

4. On her way to visit Emory Bortz, what building does Oedipa see burned down?
(a) Zapf's Used Books.
(b) The Tank Theater.
(c) Vespers House.
(d) KCUF radio station.

5. Who does Dr. Hilarius think the police are when they come to his clinic?
(a) Thurn and Taxis agents.
(b) Tristero agents.
(c) Israelis.
(d) CIA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the author of the preface of the "Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger," who Oedipa travels to the Cal State campus to find?

2. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?

3. Whose address in Berkeley does Stanley Koteks give to Oedipa?

4. Genghis Cohen informs Oedipa that a mysterious new bidder requested to view the stamps in lot 49, but the request was denied for what reason?

5. The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the historical marker that Oedipa remembers seeing at Fangoso Lagoons commemorate?

2. What is the story behind the religious splinter group known as the Scurvhamites that Professor Bortz tells Oedipa about?

3. What causes Oedipa to realize that every source of information on the Tristero can somehow be traced to Inverarity?

4. Why does Nefastis contend that only a sensitive person can work his machine?

5. As Oedipa sits in rush hour traffic on the Bay Bridge, what does she determine she knows about Tristero?

6. What is meant by Oedipa seeing Genghis Cohen, the philatelist, framed in a long succession of doorways?

7. Describe the Nefastis Machine as it was explained by Stanley Koteks.

8. Oedipa compares her search for The Tristero to what process?

9. Why are WASTE mail boxes located under freeways?

10. What are the four alternatives Oedipa comes up with to explain her discoveries concerning the Tristero?

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