Symbols
Characters
Setting
Plot
100

The Courier's Tragedy

The play Oedipa and Metzger attend 

100

What four characters make up the Paranoids?

Miles, Serge, Leonard and Dean.

100

Where is the novel set?

Kinneret, CA

100

What is the party Oedpia comes back from at the beginning of the novel?

A Tupperware party

200

Lot 49

Pierce Inverarity's stamp collection

200

What is Mucho Maas' job?

He is a disk jockey.
200

What year is the book set in?

Mid 1960s

200

What time did Dr. Hilarius call Oedipa at the beginning of the book?

At 3AM

300

Trystero 

What is the name of a mail company?
300

Who is Metzger?

Lawyer friend of Pierce, helps Oedipa settle the legal matters of the estate. They also have an affair.

300

What is the fictional town in California that Pierce had a lot of financial pull in?

San Narciso

300

Where does Oedpia find the first muted horn symbol?

The bathroom of The Scoop

400

W. A. S. T. E. 

What is We Await Silent Tristero's Empire?
400

Oedpia's psychotherapist's name

Dr. Hilarius 

400

What's the name of the bar Oedipa and Metzger meet Mike Fallopian at?

The Scoop

500

Muted Post Horn

What is a muted variant of the Thurn and Taxis postal monopoly coat of arms?

500

Mike Fallopian

Right-wing historian and critic of the postal system

500

What does Pierce try to sell to make charcoal?

Bones from forgotten WW2 soldiers

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