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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does fangoso mean in Spanish?
(a) Swampy.
(b) Famous.
(c) Swanky.
(d) Fan dance.

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

5. What kind of game does Metzger suggest he and Oedipa play in the motel room at Echo Courts?
(a) A game of strip Botticelli.
(b) A game of Botticelli cards.
(c) A game of poker.
(d) A game of strip poker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fangoso Lagoons?

2. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?

3. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?

4. What has Oedipa noticed about her life before she embarks on her journey?

5. Why does Dr. Hilarius call Oedipa at 3 a.m.?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the manager of the Echo Courts think Oedipa is trying to seduce him?

2. What does Oedipa do in the bathroom of the Echo Courts motel room prior to playing a game with Metzger?

3. Where did Tony Jaguar get the bones that he sold to Beaconsfield Cigarettes?

4. What kind of image does Funch the program director want Mucho to have at the radio station?

5. Why does the moment Oedipa sees San Narciso from a hilltop have a religious quality to her?

6. What is the larger setting of The Crying of Lot 49?

7. How did Mucho Maas feel about the used cars his customers brought in for trade-in?

8. Why is Di Presso hiding in a boat at Fangoso Lagoons to avoid his client?

9. As Oedipa seeks a motel to escape the illusion of speed and freedom that driving provides, to what does she compare the road?

10. In his phone call to Oedipa a year ago, what did Pierce Inverarity say about Mucho?

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