Inherent Vice Quiz

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Inherent Vice Quiz

Test your knowledge of Thomas Pynchon's 'Inherent Vice' with this engaging quiz! Whether you're a longtime fan of the novel or exploring it for the first time, this quiz will challenge your recall of key plot points, characters, and themes.

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The protagonist of Inherent Vice is...

Mickey Wolfman

Larry "Doc" Sportello

Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.

Shasta

Doc has a contentious relationship with this detective throughout the novel...

Watson "Big Tuna" Holmes

Christian F. "Bigfoot" Bjornsen

D. Hembone Deere

Oedipa Maas

Inherent Vice can be best described as a...

Detective story

Police procederal

Legal thriller

California surf movie

Pynchon has a habit of putting these in his novels...

Websites

Diatribes on the human condition

Song lyrics

Exotic animals as pets

An air of [_______] hangs over everything in the novel

Climate change

Paranoia

Political corruption

Positivity

Doc is helped in his various investigations by who?

Jade

Deputy D.A. Penny Kimball

Coy Harlingen

All of the above

The novel begins when [________ ___ _______] asks Doc to investigate a scheme involving a prominent land developer.

Zoyd Wheeler

Shasta Fay Hepworth

Bambi

Sofya Kovalevskaya

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