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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. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?
2. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
3. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?
4. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?
5. Fallopian tells Metzger that what two ideas are part of the same creeping horror?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the moment Oedipa sees San Narciso from a hilltop have a religious quality to her?
2. Who was the Peter Pinguid Society named for?
3. Why does the manager of the Echo Courts think Oedipa is trying to seduce him?
4. What does Oedipa do in the bathroom of the Echo Courts motel room prior to playing a game with Metzger?
5. What is the larger setting of The Crying of Lot 49?
6. What is the plot of the movie that Metzger starred in as a child?
7. In his phone call to Oedipa a year ago, what did Pierce Inverarity say about Mucho?
8. Why can't Mucho Maas drink honey in his coffee?
9. Why is the introduction of the Yoyodyne mail deliverer at The Scope important to the plot of The Crying of Lot 49?
10. As Oedipa seeks a motel to escape the illusion of speed and freedom that driving provides, to what does she compare the road?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Fate is a dominant theme in The Crying of Lot 49. 1) Discuss this theme throughout the novel. 2) How is Oedipa trying to find out the fate of America, not just her own fate?
Essay Topic 2
The possible crime related to Inverarity's estate, the use of GI bones, is coupled to a Jacobean play about crimes also set in Italy, The Courier's Tragedy. Discuss how the themes of the novel are echoed in the play, as well as referencing the literary significance of Pynchon's use of a play-within-a-play.
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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