SparkNotes: The Crying of Lot 49: Review Quiz

In what play does Oedipa first hear the mention of "Tristero"?

(A) Macbeth

(B) The Courier's Tragedy

(C) Doctor Faustus

(D) The Tempest

Oedipa's husband is:

(A) Mucho

(B) Metzger

(C) Mike Fallopian

(D) Genghis Cohen

Oedipa's ex-boyfriend who died just before the novel begins is:

(A) Mucho Maas

(B) Mike Fallopian

(C) Metzger

(D) Pierce Inverarity

The sign of the Tristero is:

(A) A Swastika

(B) A skull and crossbones

(C) A dark rider on a horse

(D) A muted post horn

Mike Fallopian is a member of the:

(A) Peter Pingiud Society

(B) John Birth Society

(C) Theater troupe that performs The Courier's Tragedy

(D) The "We Await Silent Tristero's Empire" club

Oedipa lives with her husband in a town called:

(A) San Narciso

(B) Berkeley

(C) Kinneret

(D) San Francisco

The man at the auction who bids on lot 49 is:

(A) Pierce Inverarity

(B) Metzger

(C) Genghis Cohen

(D) We never find out.

The hippie band that appears frequently in the novel is called:

(A) The Paranoids

(B) The Tristeros

(C) The Radicals

(D) The Hipsters

Manny di Presso's client sold Pierce Inverarity what good?

(A) Marijuana

(B) LSD

(C) Crude oil

(D) Human bones

Dr. Hilarius is trying to develop:

(A) His own theories of human sexuality

(B) An explanation of the Tristero

(C) A brand of hallucinogenic drugs

(D) A novel about life in California

The fictional machine mentioned in the novel that defies the second law of thermodynamics is called:

(A) Tristero's Agent

(B) Maxwell's Demon

(C) Driblette's Mechanism

(D) Oedipa's Vice

Other novels by Thomas Pynchon include:

(A) The Radicals, On the Road

(B) V., Gravity's Rainbow

(C) Lolita, Light in August

(D) The Enchanted Hunter, Paper Moons

Genghis Cohen is a:

(A) Philatelist

(B) Member of the Paranoids

(C) Member of the Peter Pinguid Society

(D) Lawyer

W.A.S.T.E. stands for:

(A) We Are Standing Tall Everywhere

(B) We Are Singing Tough Eulogies

(C) Weapons of Annihilation and Sudden Termination Exposition

(D) We Await Silent Tristero's Empire

Oedipa delivers the old man's letter to:

(A) The post office

(B) A house in Berkeley

(C) A garbage can under a freeway

(D) A secret hideout in San Narciso

How does Oedipa hear of Pierce's death?

(A) She received a letter from a law firm.

(B) She receives a phone call from her husband.

(C) She reads of his death in the newspapers.

(D) She sees it covered on the local news station.

When Oedipa goes to see Dr. Hilarius at the end of chapter five, he:

(A) Tries to rape her

(B) Fires a rifle at her

(C) Forces her to take LSD

(D) Beats her

Explicitly, Lot 49 is:

(A) Pierce's stamp collection

(B) A pseudonym for the Tristero

(C) A code word for the Peter Pinguid Society

(D) A type of machine that allows for perpetual motion

The chemical manufacturing plant Oedipa visits is:

(A) Inverarity Chemicals

(B) San Narciso Manufacturing

(C) Tristero Products, Inc

(D) Yoyodyne

The professor who helps Oedipa solve some of the Tristero story in chapter six is:

(A) Cornell Abort

(B) Whitman Villanova

(C) Davis Pomona

(D) Emory Bortz

Oedipa visits John Nefastis to find out if she is:

(A) Pregnant

(B) "Sensitive"

(C) Insane

(D) A member of the Tristero

The Nefastis Machine is a special type of:

(A) Chemical manufacturing device

(B) Maxwell's Demon

(C) Television set

(D) Progressive rock hippie band

As a youth, Metzger appeared in films under the name of:

(A) Baby Kane

(B) Young Einstein

(C) Baby Igor

(D) Baby Frankenstein

Tristero was a man who:

(A) Fought against the European postal system in the 16th century

(B) Murdered his brother and usurped the throne of Spain

(C) Ran the Thurn and Taxis system in Europe

(D) Started a mysterious, esoteric Christian cult

In the end of the novel, Oedipa:

(A) Commits suicide

(B) Finds the head of the Tristero organization in America

(C) Gives up her search and returns to her life in Kinneret with Mucho

(D) Finds herself alone and isolated as she goes insane