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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 mace.
(b) A can of hairspray.
(c) A can of propane.
(d) A can of deodorant.

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

3. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa a Pony Express stamp from 1940 with the _______ symbol on the back.
(a) WASTE.
(b) Yoyodyne.
(c) Tristero.
(d) Nefastis.

4. What is Stanley Koteks doodling when Oedipa comes up to his desk?
(a) The sign of the muted post horn.
(b) The Yoyodyne symbol.
(c) The symbol of a cancelled postmark.
(d) The sign of the Triads.

5. Where does Genghis Cohen want to send several of the stamps he is reviewing for Oedipa?
(a) A Stamp Expo.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) University of California.
(d) An Expert Committee.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her investigations in Chapter 4, Oedipa goes to what kind of meeting at Yoyodyne?

2. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?

3. 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?

4. Who is Randolph Driblette?

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?

(see the answer key)

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