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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?
(a) Fraidycat.
(b) Nannynana.
(c) Fu-Manchu.
(d) Fu-Mucho.

2. Dr. Hilarius's insistence that Oedipa take part in the experiment reminds Oedipa of what?
(a) Military recruiting posters with Uncle Sam.
(b) Her Uncle Sal.
(c) Military recruiting posters with a marine.
(d) Her father's poster collection.

3. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Cattle rancher.
(b) Radio station disc jockey.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Used car salesman.

4. What does the Nefastis Machine do?
(a) Create Nuclear warheads.
(b) Sort postal symbols.
(c) Create thermodynamics.
(d) Sort hot and cold molecules.

5. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A psychiatrist appointment.
(c) A Tupperware party.
(d) A bar.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Randolph Driblette?

2. In Chapter 4, who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks she is?

3. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?

4. Who does Oedipa try to call from a phone booth before she heads to the bookstore?

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

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