1. What scientific rule does the Nefastis Machine violate?
(a) The Law of Triads.
(b) Second Law of Thermodynamics.
(c) First Law of Thermodynamics.
(d) The WASTE Law.

2. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?
(a) She sleeps wtih John Nefastis.
(b) A young man waltzes her around the ballroom.
(c) She sees the ghost of Inverarity.
(d) She finds Mucho waiting in her room.

3. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?
(a) What will happen in the movie they are watching.
(b) What Inverarity said about her.
(c) The name of the other actor in the movie.
(d) What his acting name was.

4. The San Francisco tourist wearing the lapel pin advises Oedipa to write his group's founder through the ____ system.
(a) Postal.
(b) WASTE.
(c) Underground mail.
(d) Peter Pinguid Society.

5. What does Metzger theorize that the members of Mike Fallopian's group would be opposed to?
(a) Any government monopoly such as the postal system.
(b) The electoral system.
(c) Higher taxes.
(d) Any government monopoly such as the drug adminstration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Genghis Cohen gives Oedipa a supposed translation from an article in an 1865 issue of Bibliotheque des Timbrophiles, which recounts a great schism in Tristero during what time period?

2. The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what?

3. What is the name of the bar that Oedipa and Metzger go to near the Yoyodyne plant?

4. Mr. Thoth, a resident of the home for senior citizens, wakes from a doze and mentions to Oedipa that his grandfather rode for the ______________.

5. Who is Metzger?

(see the answer key)

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