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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 San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
2. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?
3. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
4. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?
5. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Di Presso hiding in a boat at Fangoso Lagoons to avoid his client?
2. What kind of image does Funch the program director want Mucho to have at the radio station?
3. What do the Paranoids set outside the door of Oedipa's room?
4. According to Mike Fallopian, what eventually happened to Peter Pinguid?
5. What is suggested by the name of Oedipa's psychiatrist, Dr. Hilarius?
6. What does Oedipa do in the bathroom of the Echo Courts motel room prior to playing a game with Metzger?
7. What is the metaphor Oedipa is referring to about The Trystero and the costumes of historical figures?
8. Why is the introduction of the Yoyodyne mail deliverer at The Scope important to the plot of The Crying of Lot 49?
9. How did Mucho Maas feel about the used cars his customers brought in for trade-in?
10. What is the plot of the movie that Metzger starred in as a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how Chapter 4 of The Crying of Lot 49 shows Oedipa involved in a process of meaning creation. Give at least four specific examples from events in the chapter.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how the meaninglessness of modern life is a central thematic strand to the narrative of The Crying of Lot 49.
Essay Topic 3
The larger setting of The Crying of Lot 49 is the United States in the era of the counter-culture, the 1960s, when experimentation with psychedelic drugs was rife and identity crises pervasive. The problem the novel presents is the crisis of meaning present in modern life. Choose one of the four ways this theme manifests itself throughout the novel. Discuss it thoroughly with events and characters.
1) Identity crises
2) Relationship and sexuality problems
3) Injustice in the economic system
4) Loss of cultural consensus as to what constitutes truth
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