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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 41-83.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At Wallace's games, how do people respond to a tornado warning?
(a) They gather together.
(b) They scatter.
(c) They get in a ditch.
(d) They ignore it.

2. What was Image-Fiction a response to?
(a) Television's influence.
(b) The rapid development of art.
(c) The surplus of nonfiction.
(d) The decline of the government.

3. Wallace's thesis is that irony and ridicule are simultaneously entertaining and _______.
(a) Enlightening.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Disparaging.
(d) Intelligent.

4. In the scenario Wallace describes in "E Unibus Pluram," what is the professor's belief?
(a) All writing must make reference to pop-culture.
(b) People should rebel against pop-culture.
(c) No references to pop-culture should be made in writing.
(d) Everyone needs to understand pop-culture.

5. Wallace claims that television teaches viewers that _______ is the most important quality in a person.
(a) Talent.
(b) Being watched.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Wallace call his tennis style "creative"?

2. Wallace describes his tennis career as ______ successful.

3. According to Wallace, how did Leyner's image-fiction attempt to solve irony?

4. Gilder believes technology can be solved with ________.

5. What about Leyner's image-fiction made Wallace wonder if pop-culture is all people have become?

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