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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) Cavalry.
(b) Pony Express.
(c) Continental Railroad.
(d) Couriers.

2. What does Oedipa see on an airmail stamp with a jet flying by the Capital dome that is on the letter the old drunk asks her to mail?
(a) A dead badger on top of the dome.
(b) A suspicious black figure flying the plane.
(c) A suspicious black figure on top of the dome.
(d) A WASTE symbol on the plane.

3. Tristero y Calavera set up his own postal system and called himself El Desheredado, which meant what?
(a) The Disinherited.
(b) The Disenfranchised.
(c) The Desperate.
(d) The Dangerous.

4. The Paranoids sing a song recounting how men like __________ seduce younger women?
(a) Metzger.
(b) Mucho.
(c) Miles.
(d) Humbert Humbert.

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

6. Dr. Hilarius protests that if he had been a real Nazi he would have become a Jungian. Instead, he chose to follow __________.
(a) Marx
(b) Maslov
(c) Hitler
(d) Freud

7. 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) Surplus Value.
(b) Communist.
(c) Thermodynamics.
(d) Open Markets.

8. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.
(a) Erratic
(b) Sad
(c) Generic
(d) Funny

9. What is the purpose of the group as explained by the tourist wearing the lapel pin?
(a) It is a secret society of renegade postal workers.
(b) To help people not fall in love.
(c) It is a secret society of reformed sinners.
(d) To help people fall in love.

10. As Oedipa sits in the apartment in Berkeley concentrating and awaiting the demon's message, what is on the TV?
(a) Metzger's movie.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) News about China.
(d) News about Viet Nam.

11. The pattern of information Oedipa sees forming in Chapter 4 has to do with what?
(a) Mail delivery.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Astrology.
(d) Jacobean revenge plays.

12. Who does Oedipa try to call from a phone booth before she heads to the bookstore?
(a) Mucho.
(b) Metzger.
(c) Fallopian.
(d) Driblette.

13. When Oedipa calls Emory Bortz, what does his wife Grace tell her Bortz is doing at the moment?
(a) Writing.
(b) Pouring a patio.
(c) Killing their children.
(d) Pouring drinks.

14. What does Mucho offer to Oedipa before they leave the pizzeria?
(a) LSD.
(b) A divorce.
(c) Money.
(d) His forgiveness.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Genghis Cohen claims that the stamp, which depicts a Pony Express rider galloping out of a western fort into a black feather, is what?

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

3. 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?

4. Oedipa has a conversation in a bar with the wearer of the lapel pin, and he tells her he is a member of what group?

5. Oedipa's hotel room in the Berkeley hills contains a reproduction of whose painting?

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