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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 losing noble patronage, the majority of Tristero members fled to where during 1849-50?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Russia.
(c) America.
(d) France.

2. What is Stanley Koteks doodling when Oedipa comes up to his desk?
(a) The sign of the muted post horn.
(b) The sign of the Triads.
(c) The Yoyodyne symbol.
(d) The symbol of a cancelled postmark.

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

4. While wandering amongst the tourists in downtown San Francisco, Oedipa sees what on a lapel pin?
(a) Thurn and Tassis.
(b) WASTE symbol.
(c) Maxwell's demon.
(d) KCUF radio symbol.

5. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa an old German stamp with Thurn and Taxis printed on it which has a special symbol in each corner. He suggests that the extra mark on the symbol is a ______.
(a) Flute.
(b) Foul.
(c) Mute.
(d) Moat.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Oedipa meets Mike Fallopian for the second time, he tells her it is difficult to find documentary proof of what?

2. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?

3. What is the name of the auctioneer who will be crying the lots the day Oedipa goes?

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

5. Oedipa recites the couplet from the play which mentions Trystero and Bortz and says the quote came from a pornographic version of the play which was held where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Oedipa think it is possible that her search for Tristero may be a hoax created by Pierce Inverarity?

2. How is the campus of Cal State different from when Oedipa was in college?

3. According to Jesus Arrabal, what is the miracle of Inverarity?

4. What is the paradox that Oedipa discovers concerning the Trystero couplet from Driblette's play?

5. What is Pynchon ridiculing through all of Oedipa's in-depth research into the Trystero?

6. What is the story behind the founding of Inamorati Anonymous?

7. Inamorati Anonymous' association to the muted post horn symbol seems purely accidental, yet what are some similarities this group has to the Tristero?

8. 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?

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

10. When Oedipa visits Vesperhaven House, what does Mr. Thoth tell her about his dream?

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