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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. What is the name of Oedipa's lawyer?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Roseman.
(c) Rothman.
(d) Rutherford.

2. What does Mucho advise Oedipa to do after she shows him the letter regarding Pierce Inverarity?
(a) Call Inverarity's wife.
(b) Contact their lawyer.
(c) Go see her shrink.
(d) Have a drink.

3. What does Oedipa ask questions about in order to play the game with Metzger?
(a) Music.
(b) The movie.
(c) Inverarity.
(d) Metzger.

4. What is on the huge sign advertising the Echo Courts Motel?
(a) A huge cavern in the side of a mountain.
(b) A nymph holding a white blossom.
(c) Athena, the goddess of love.
(d) Echo, the god of wind.

5. What is the huge complex surrounded by barbed-wire-topped fence, its entrance flanked by sixty-foot missiles with the name Yoyodyne, Inc. lettered on each nose cone, that Oedipa passes as she drives into San Narciso?
(a) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(b) The Galactronics Division of a company in which Mucho owned shares.
(c) The postal delivery division of a company in which Pierce owned shares.
(d) The movie company owned by Metger.

Short Answer Questions

1. The rock group, The Paranoids, is a take off on what famous band?

2. What is Oedipa worried about as she receives a letter from Mucho in Chapter 3?

3. What is the name of the movie Metzger starred in as a child?

4. After hearing about his work in Chapter 1, Oedipa tells Mucho that he is too ___________?

5. What does Oedipa see scribbled on the wall of the ladies' room at the bar she is in with Metzger and Mike Fallopian?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the metaphor Oedipa is referring to about The Trystero and the costumes of historical figures?

3. What is suggested by the name of Oedipa's psychiatrist, Dr. Hilarius?

4. What does Oedipa mean in Chapter 1 when she tells Dr. Hilarius that she is already having hallucinations?

5. What do the Paranoids set outside the door of Oedipa's room?

6. How is the sign advertising the Echo Courts in the likeness of Marilyn Monroe?

7. Describe the manager of the Echo Courts Motel.

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

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

10. Who was the Peter Pinguid Society named for?

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