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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens at the climax of Oedipa and Metzger's intimate relations?
(a) The lights go out.
(b) Opedipa has a vision.
(c) Metzger falls asleep.
(d) The Parniods sing.

2. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?
(a) The Beach Boys.
(b) The Eagles.
(c) The Sex Pistols.
(d) The Beatles.

3. Who wins the bet about the movie Oedipa and Metzger are watching while staying at the motel?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Oedipa.
(d) Miles.

4. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
(a) To find another "shrink."
(b) To go off the medication.
(c) To go on medication.
(d) Not to leave her "shrink ."

5. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(c) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

Short Answer Questions

1. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?

2. Why does Dr. Hilarius call Oedipa at 3 a.m.?

3. What is the name of Dr. Hilarius' s face number 37, which is the face children often use for taunting?

4. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?

5. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?

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