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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Call Inverarity's wife.
(b) Have a drink.
(c) Contact their lawyer.
(d) Go see her shrink.

2. Under what name did Metzger perform when he was a child actor?
(a) Baby Love.
(b) Baby Joe.
(c) Baby Igor.
(d) Baby Jane.

3. As she prepares to play a game with Metzger, what begins careening around the bathroom of Oedipa's motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A can of hairspray.
(b) A can of deodorant.
(c) A can of mace.
(d) A can of propane.

4. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Pills nor the doctor.
(c) Pills nor psycho babble.
(d) God.

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 Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(b) The movie company owned by Metger.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Oedipa use to fend off the advances of the manager of the Echo Courts Motel?

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

4. What is the name of the actor who will play Metzger in a pilot for a TV series?

5. As the novel begins, Mrs. Oedipa Maas arrives home from where?

(see the answer key)

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