View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why, according to Wallace, did Image-Fiction fail?
(a) There wants enough money invested.
(b) The concept was too confusing.
(c) People weren't interested in it.
(d) It succumbed to the same problems as television.

2. Wallace believes that commercials have evolved into appealing to a sense of ______.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Individuality.
(c) Community.
(d) Intellect.

3. What does Wallace attribute his tennis success to?
(a) God.
(b) Sun.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Wind.

4. Wallace studied Mathematics in college because the straight lines reminded him of what?
(a) The grids of sudoku.
(b) Lines of Midwestern geography.
(c) His dreams.
(d) The windows of skyscrapers.

5. According to Wallace, how did Leyner's image-fiction attempt to solve irony?
(a) It embraced it.
(b) It ignored it.
(c) It mocked it.
(d) It negated it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Image-Fiction a response to?

2. What does Wallace believe about the dialogue in six hours worth of television?

3. According to Wallace, commercials make people watch more television because they want to understand the _______.

4. Wallace believes fighting technology lies in ________.

5. What is Wallace's objective in describing the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" references in an episode of St. Elsewhere?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 241 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample