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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mr. Thoth, a resident of the home for senior citizens, wakes from a doze and mentions to Oedipa that his grandfather rode for the ______________.
(a) Couriers.
(b) Continental Railroad.
(c) Pony Express.
(d) Cavalry.

2. Bortz imagines one visionary militant addressing a group of Tristero members in a tavern to propose a merger with official postal couriers. What name does he give to this visionary?
(a) Conan.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Kenny.
(d) Konrad.

3. Who does Oedipa tell Stanley Koteks sent her to him as she comes upon him doodling at his desk at Yoyodyne?
(a) Thune.
(b) Kirby.
(c) Kelly.
(d) John.

4. How many errors did Genghis Cohen find in the stamp collection Oedipa showed him?
(a) Six.
(b) Nine.
(c) Eight.
(d) Five.

5. Whose address in Berkeley does Stanley Koteks give to Oedipa?
(a) Zapf's Used Books.
(b) John Nefastis.
(c) Pierce Inverarity.
(d) The WASTE group.

6. Oedipa returns to Echo Courts to find the Paranoids in shock because _________ ran off with one of their girlfriends.
(a) Humbert Humbert.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Miles.
(d) Mucho.

7. Mr. Thoth pulls a gold signet ring with the ________ symbol out of his knitting bag, which he says his grandfather cut from the finger of an Indian he had killed.
(a) Yoyodyne.
(b) Nefastis.
(c) Trystero.
(d) WASTE.

8. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.
(a) Communist.
(b) Open Markets.
(c) Surplus Value.
(d) Thermodynamics.

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

10. Bortz leads Oedipa into a study to view woodcut illustrations from the pornographic version of the play. What does she see hovering in the background of the obscene images?
(a) WASTE symbol.
(b) Death.
(c) Trystero.
(d) Love.

11. After losing noble patronage, the majority of Tristero members fled to where during 1849-50?
(a) Russia.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

12. Who answers the phone when Oedipa tries to call Driblette from her motel room in Chapter 6?
(a) Driblette's mother.
(b) His girlfriend.
(c) A graduate student.
(d) Grace Bortz.

13. What happens to Oedipa after she knocks on the door of Dr. Hilarius's office in Chapter 5?
(a) He begs her to run away with him.
(b) He makes love to her.
(c) He gives her LSD.
(d) He takes her hostage.

14. Who is Genghis Cohen?
(a) A philatelist.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) A philanthropist.
(d) A philosopher.

15. Which of the following is NOT a place that Oedipa encountered the WASTE symbol?
(a) A message in a fortune cookie.
(b) Written in chalk on a sidewalk.
(c) An herbalist's window in Chinatown.
(d) Gang jackets of delinquents at the city beach.

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. Oedipa recites the couplet from the play which mentions Trystero and Bortz and says the quote came from a pornographic version of the play which was held where?

3. Genghis Cohen shows Oedipa a Pony Express stamp from 1940 with the _______ symbol on the back.

4. According to Genghis Cohen, who organized the courier service in the Bergamo region around 1290?

5. When Oedipa calls Emory Bortz, what does his wife Grace tell her Bortz is doing at the moment?

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