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

2. Genghis Cohen claims that the stamp, which depicts a Pony Express rider galloping out of a western fort into a black feather, is what?
(a) Priceless.
(b) Rare.
(c) Counterfeit.
(d) Extinct.

3. 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.

4. What is on the cover of the book she purchases at Zapf's Used Books?
(a) A WASTE symbol.
(b) A Tristero.
(c) The Nefastis Machine.
(d) A Skull.

5. What was the name of the author of the preface of the "Plays of Ford, Webster, Tourneur and Wharfinger," who Oedipa travels to the Cal State campus to find?
(a) John Nefastis.
(b) Clerk Maxwell.
(c) Stanley Koteks.
(d) Emory Bortz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oedipa try to call from a phone booth before she heads to the bookstore?

2. Mucho's boss, Funch, says Mucho is losing his identity and becoming more ________.

3. Metzger tells Mike Fallopian he is so right-wing that he's left-wing, and possibly a Marxist, since he is invoking the _______theory.

4. 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?

5. While walking down a stretch of railroad track, Oedipa remembers that Inverarity had once told her the secret to success was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In addition to visiting John Nefastis, why does Oedipa need to go to Berkeley?

2. According to Jesus Arrabal, what is the miracle of Inverarity?

3. The overall crisis Oedipa faces by the end of the novel could be summed up how?

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

5. By gathering clues from diverse obscure sources, what is the account of how the Tristero organization began that Oedipa pieces together?

6. What is the paradox that Oedipa discovers concerning the Trystero couplet from Driblette's play?

7. What is the story behind the religious splinter group known as the Scurvhamites that Professor Bortz tells Oedipa about?

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

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

10. When Oedipa and Metzger go back to The Scope in Chapter 4, Mike Fallopian explains that there exists what kind of underground group?

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