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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 138-183.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What activity other than tennis does Wallace cite as using geometry?
(a) Swimming.
(b) Video games.
(c) Billiards.
(d) Darts.

3. 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) Go to a nearby ditch.
(d) Gather together.

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

5. Wallace learns that people enter the Junior Livestock Competition for ______.
(a) Fame.
(b) Pride.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wallace believes people recognize pop-culture references but are _______ with them.

2. Wallace describes his tennis career as ______ successful.

3. In Hix's argument, "Morte d'Author," American post-structuralists argue what about authors?

4. What does Wallace speculate Lynch doesn't intend for "Lost Highway"?

5. On his second day of the desert competition, why does Wallace repeatedly use the bathroom?

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