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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?
2. On a long ago trip with Pierce Inverarity, where did Oedipa see an exhibition of paintings by Remedios Varo ?
3. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
4. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
5. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the Paranoids set outside the door of Oedipa's room?
2. How is the sign advertising the Echo Courts in the likeness of Marilyn Monroe?
3. Why does the moment Oedipa sees San Narciso from a hilltop have a religious quality to her?
4. What is scribbled next to a message advertising the WASTE group on the bathroom wall of The Scope?
5. What was strange about Pierce Inverarity's call to Oedipa a year ago?
6. Who was the Peter Pinguid Society named for?
7. Why does the manager of the Echo Courts think Oedipa is trying to seduce him?
8. What is the metaphor Oedipa is referring to about The Trystero and the costumes of historical figures?
9. What does Oedipa mean in Chapter 1 when she tells Dr. Hilarius that she is already having hallucinations?
10. How did Mucho Maas feel about the used cars his customers brought in for trade-in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Give a definition of allegory and then discuss the allegorical aspects of the setting and characters of The Crying of Lot 49.
Essay Topic 2
How is Oedipa figured as a modern Rapunzel locked in a tower from which no prince can free her? How does Pynchon repeatedly emphasize that what confines her is visited upon her from outside? How does this mystery of what constitutes this malignant external force drive the entire narrative of The Crying of Lot 49?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the function of language and its ability or inability to convey truth as a central thematic strand of the novel. How is this theme intertwined with others in The Crying of Lot 49?
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