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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. How does Oedipa end up at the desk of Stanley Koteks?
(a) They are former lovers.
(b) She is directed there by voices in her head.
(c) She follows the WASTE symbols.
(d) She gets lost on a tour of Yoyodyne.

2. Who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks sent her to him as she comes upon him doodling at his desk at Yoyodyne?
(a) John.
(b) Kelly.
(c) Thune.
(d) Kirby.

3. What is the purpose of the group as explained by the tourist wearing the lapel pin?
(a) To help people fall in love.
(b) It is a secret society of reformed sinners.
(c) To help people not fall in love.
(d) It is a secret society of renegade postal workers.

4. Who is Genghis Cohen?
(a) A psychiatrist.
(b) A philosopher.
(c) A philatelist.
(d) A philanthropist.

5. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?
(a) Board.
(b) Stockholders.
(c) Patents.
(d) Design.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 4, who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks she is?

3. Oedipa drives around the freeway at night without her lights on, and then ends up in a phone booth calling which bar in San Francisco?

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

5. While walking down a stretch of railroad track, Oedipa remembers that Inverarity had once told her the secret to success was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. The men Oedipa meets on her journey end up abandoning her. What were some of their fates and what did they represent?

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

9. Bortz hands Oedipa an ancient book about the Italian travels of Dr. Diocletian Blobb. What does this story have to do with the Trystero?

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

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