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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?
(a) Mucho will commit adultery with a teenager.
(b) Mucho will join the circus.
(c) Mucho will quit his job.
(d) Mucho will be angry that she slept with Metzger.

2. How did Oedipa know Pierce Inverarity?
(a) He was a former lover.
(b) He was her ex-husband.
(c) He was her lawyer.
(d) He was her brother.

3. What does the Nefastis Machine do?
(a) Create thermodynamics.
(b) Sort postal symbols.
(c) Sort hot and cold molecules.
(d) Create Nuclear warheads.

4. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A resturant.
(c) A nightclub.
(d) A Turkish bath.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?

3. Where does Stanley Koteks tell Oedipa to go instead of Berkeley after he becomes distrustful of her?

4. Genghis Cohen told Oedipa, during their discussion about the meanings behind the stamps, that he had never heard of an _______ year tradition of postal fraud.

5. Who is Genghis Cohen?

(see the answer key)

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