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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 83-111.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Wallace, why do Easterners take their vacations to be isolated?
(a) Because they are antisocial.
(b) Because they are agoraphobic.
(c) Because they're always around people.
(d) Because they love nature.

3. After seeing the distressed pigs at the livestock barns, why does Wallace feel hypocritical?
(a) Because he doesn't like pigs.
(b) Because he used to work for a barn.
(c) Because he's craving a corndog.
(d) Because he doesn't care.

4. According to Wallace, why do Midwesterners take their vacations to be around people?
(a) Because they need to be complimented.
(b) Because they need to belong.
(c) Because they are claustrophobic.
(d) Because they're isolated otherwise.

5. In the Midwest, how are people supposed to respond to a tornado during a tennis match?
(a) Get under the benches.
(b) Go home.
(c) Gather together.
(d) Go to a nearby ditch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wallace's thesis is that irony and ridicule are simultaneously entertaining and _______.

2. In college, Wallace began to fall behind in his peers _______.

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

4. What does Wallace blame for his failure as a tennis player in college?

5. In the scenario Wallace describes in "E Unibus Pluram," what is the professor's belief?

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