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

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

3. What is the name of the home for senior citizens that Oedipa visits?
(a) Haven House.
(b) Vespers House.
(c) Vestibule House.
(d) Vesperhaven House.

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

5. After Oedipa follows the wino with the bag of letters, where does she find the can with the WASTE symbol on the side?
(a) On a bus.
(b) At her hotel.
(c) Under the freeway
(d) Behind Nefastis' apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who answers the phone when Oedipa tries to call Driblette from her motel room in Chapter 6?

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

3. Bortz hands Oedipa an ancient book about the _________ travels of Dr. Diocletian Blobb.

4. When Mucho interviews Oedipa after she leaves Dr. Hilarius's office, what name does her call her?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. When Oedipa and Metzger go back to The Scope in Chapter 4, Mike Fallopian explains that there exists what kind of underground group?

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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