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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Dr. Hilarius think the police are when they come to his clinic?
(a) Israelis.
(b) Tristero agents.
(c) CIA.
(d) Thurn and Taxis agents.

2. What is in the pond at the center of Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) Fragments of old Disney Land rides.
(b) Fragments of missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone.
(c) Famous fountains coming out of sunken ships.
(d) Fragments of sunken galleons and Atlantean columns.

3. How did Metzger know that Oedipa went to Mexico with Inverarity?
(a) Inverarity wrote Metzger a letter.
(b) Inverarity listed it as a business expense.
(c) Inverarity wrote a song about it.
(d) Inverarity listed it in his will.

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

5. As Oedipa parks her car at the Echo Courts, what idea does she remember?
(a) Words to a song she can't remember.
(b) A slow whirlwind and words she couldn't hear.
(c) Her last words to Inverarity whirling around her.
(d) Her last words to Mucho before she left.

Short Answer Questions

1. The San Francisco tourist wearing the lapel pin advises Oedipa to write his group's founder through the ____ system.

2. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?

3. What comments does Metzger make to Oedipa after every commercial on the TV as they watch his movie in the motel room?

4. What scientific rule does the Nefastis Machine violate?

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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