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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Oedipa's search for the source text for the Jacobean revenge play , the publisher sends her to a warehouse in what city?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?
(a) Famous.
(b) Swampy.
(c) Fan dance.
(d) Swanky.

3. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?
(a) The WASTE symbol.
(b) The Pynchon symbol.
(c) The Tressero symbol.
(d) The Postal symbol.

4. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of Botticelli cards.
(b) A game of strip Botticelli.
(c) A game of poker.
(d) A game of strip poker.

5. What is at the center of the intricate plot of the play Oedipa and Metzger go to see?
(a) A postal monopoly throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(b) American GI's who perished during World War II.
(c) Corruption throughout the Holy Roman Empire.
(d) Trouble with the leadership of the local mafia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?

2. What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week?

3. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

4. What song do the Paranoids play for Oedipa and Metzger the first night in the motel?

5. Oedipa flees Berkley in Chapter 5 and finds herself on a freeway at rush hour, heading for _________.

(see the answer key)

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