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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about Leyner's image-fiction made Wallace wonder if pop-culture is all people have become?
(a) Leyner's heavy use of pop-culture references.
(b) Leyner is very involved in making pop-culture.
(c) Leyner praises pop-culture.
(d) Leyner is a pop-culture character.

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

3. According to Wallace, how do commercials respond to the pressure for people to stop watching so much television?
(a) Commercials convince people television is reality.
(b) Commercials convince viewers they are smart.
(c) Commercials convince people they need more products.
(d) Commercials convince people they need television.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Wallace studied Mathematics in college because the straight lines reminded him of what?

2. What activity other than tennis does Wallace cite as using geometry?

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

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

5. What was Image-Fiction a response to?

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