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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. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?
2. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
3. Dr. Hilarius has a theory that faces are like what?
4. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
5. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Oedipa mean in Chapter 1 when she tells Dr. Hilarius that she is already having hallucinations?
2. Why does the moment Oedipa sees San Narciso from a hilltop have a religious quality to her?
3. What does Oedipa do in the bathroom of the Echo Courts motel room prior to playing a game with Metzger?
4. According to Mike Fallopian, what eventually happened to Peter Pinguid?
5. In his phone call to Oedipa a year ago, what did Pierce Inverarity say about Mucho?
6. What was strange about Pierce Inverarity's call to Oedipa a year ago?
7. What do the Paranoids set outside the door of Oedipa's room?
8. What aspect of Mucho's job does Oedipa compare to a religious officiant conducting a ceremony?
9. What is scribbled next to a message advertising the WASTE group on the bathroom wall of The Scope?
10. Why can't Mucho Maas drink honey in his coffee?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Oedipa's search for truth leads her to visit, along with Metzger, the Paranoids and their girlfriends, Inverarity's housing development, and Fangoso Lagoons.
1) Explain the significance of this setting to the thematic aspects of the novel.
2) Describe how the characters themselves and their actions in this scene embody certain themes of the novel.
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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