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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?
(a) Cash Only.
(b) Cashit.
(c) Cashout.
(d) Cashiered.

2. 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 poker.
(c) A game of strip poker.
(d) A game of strip Botticelli.

3. When Oedipa questions him about the play, Driblette launches into a diatribe against the obsession with texts, saying people are like __________ making a literal interpretation of the Bible.
(a) Scientists.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Priests.
(d) Preachers.

4. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?
(a) He said she wouldn't be easy.
(b) He said she was easy to talk to.
(c) He said she would be easy.
(d) He said she would have an easy time being executor.

5. What kind of music is played at the bar near the Yoyodyne plant?
(a) Country.
(b) Alternative.
(c) Electronic.
(d) Classical.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a letter from a legal firm, what does Pierce Inverarity request Oedipa do for him?

2. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?

3. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?

4. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.

5. What is unusual about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

(see the answer key)

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