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

2. On her way to visit Emory Bortz, what building does Oedipa see burned down?
(a) Zapf's Used Books.
(b) Vespers House.
(c) KCUF radio station.
(d) The Tank Theater.

3. What does Stanley Koteks ask Oedipa to look into at Yoyodyne when he thinks she is connected to the company?
(a) Smoking ban.
(b) Clause on research.
(c) Mandatory teamwork.
(d) Clause on patents.

4. Who does Dr. Hilarius think the police are when they come to his clinic?
(a) Thurn and Taxis agents.
(b) CIA.
(c) Tristero agents.
(d) Israelis.

5. What is the name of the religious splinter group Bortz attributes to changing the pornographic version of the play?
(a) Scurvhamites.
(b) Thurn and Taxis.
(c) Schumites.
(d) Purtians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Oedipa end up at the desk of Stanley Koteks?

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

3. What scientific rule does the Nefastis Machine violate?

4. What happens when Oedipa returns to her hotel in Berkeley?

5. In Chapter 5, it is explained that the equations for the entropy of heat-engines coincidentally resemble the equations for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the campus of Cal State different from when Oedipa was in college?

2. What is significant about the fact that the founder of Tristero, Hernando Joaquin de Tristero y Calavera, called himself The Disinherited?

3. As Oedipa sits in rush hour traffic on the Bay Bridge, what does she determine she knows about Tristero?

4. Oedipa discovers that the line from Driblette's version in Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger about Trystero was replaced by another referring to what?

5. Give examples of individuals with the post horn symbol who are somehow alienated from society.

6. Why does Oedipa consider her job as co-executor to be similar to Driblette's job as director of a play?

7. Describe the Nefastis Machine as it was explained by Stanley Koteks.

8. Oedipa compares her search for The Tristero to what process?

9. What is the story behind the founding of Inamorati Anonymous?

10. Inamorati Anonymous' association to the muted post horn symbol seems purely accidental, yet what are some similarities this group has to the Tristero?

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