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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 213-255.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can people smoke at the Canadian Open?
(a) Because it helps the players concentrate.
(b) Because Canadians have strange rules.
(c) Because a cigarette company sponsors it.
(d) Because the audience is nervous.

2. Two women who mistake Wallace for working for Harper's Bazaar compliment him on his magazine's _________.
(a) Editing.
(b) Recipes.
(c) Design.
(d) Advice.

3. At the beginning of "E Unibus Pluram," what does Wallace describe fiction writers as NOT enjoying?
(a) Talking to people.
(b) Being watched.
(c) Reading.
(d) Watching television.

4. Why is Wallace able to get into the desert competition at the state fair?
(a) They need more participants.
(b) There is no ID check.
(c) He bribes someone.
(d) They think he's from a different magazine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the majority of the audience of the clogging competition?

2. What was Image-Fiction a response to?

3. Wallace believes fighting technology lies in ________.

4. What does Wallace believe Lynch's painting experience has helped him with?

5. What does Wallace observe about people dancing at a rock concert?

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