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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. Why does Oedipa return to Kinneret to see Dr. Hilarius?
(a) To see if she is suffering from psychosis.
(b) To get hallucinogenic drugs.
(c) To get tranquilzers.
(d) To tell him she longer wants to be his patient.

2. What does the owner of the government surplus store, Winthrop Tremaine, tell Oedipa there is a large demand for?
(a) School clothing.
(b) SS uniforms.
(c) Swimsuits.
(d) Rifles and swastika armbands.

3. While walking down a stretch of railroad track, Oedipa remembers that Inverarity had once told her the secret to success was what?
(a) Keep it bouncing.
(b) Keep it going.
(c) Trust no one.
(d) Buy low, sell high.

4. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.
(a) The wharf.
(b) The Bay Bridge.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Los Angelos.

5. According to Stanley Koteks, who are the only ones who can work the Nefastis Machine?
(a) Demonstrators.
(b) Scientists.
(c) Sensitives.
(d) Demons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Nefastis Machine do?

2. In the time period that brought the creation of The Tristero organization, what was the name of the organization that ran the sanctioned mail routes?

3. Oedipa's hotel room in the Berkeley hills contains a reproduction of whose painting?

4. Oedipa returns to Echo Courts to find the Paranoids in shock because _________ ran off with one of their girlfriends.

5. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.

Short Essay Questions

1. Oedipa discovers that the line from Driblette's version in Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger about Trystero was replaced by another referring to what?

2. Give examples of individuals with the post horn symbol who are somehow alienated from society.

3. In addition to visiting John Nefastis, why does Oedipa need to go to Berkeley?

4. Why are WASTE mail boxes located under freeways?

5. At the end of Chapter 4, Genghis Cohen explains to Oedipa that the dandelion wine is clear now, but becomes cloudy in the spring when the dandelions begin to bloom, as if the dandelions in the wine remembered. What does Oedipa muse about this?

6. The overall crisis Oedipa faces by the end of the novel could be summed up how?

7. What connection does Oedipa make between the old German stamp with Thurn and Taxis printed on it which has a post horn, resembling the WASTE symbol, in each corner and the scene from The Courier's Tragedy?

8. What is significant about the fact that the founder of Tristero, Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera, called himself The Disinherited?

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

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

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