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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Wallace believe is the only way for an individual to define "Lynchian"?
(a) By meeting Lynch.
(b) By seeing it.
(c) It can't be defined.
(d) By looking it up.

3. At Wallace's games, how do people respond to a tornado warning?
(a) They scatter.
(b) They get in a ditch.
(c) They gather together.
(d) They ignore it.

4. Why was Wallace sent to the state fair?
(a) Because he enjoys them.
(b) Because he used to work for one.
(c) Because he is a native.
(d) Because he volunteered.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hix comments that he feels the post-structuralists' argument makes the concept of an author _______.

2. Wallace explains that Harper's Magazine has a primarily _________ audience.

3. What type of cinema does Wallace believe Lynch has influenced?

4. Wallace believes fighting technology lies in ________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As a child, what did Wallace believe the purpose of carnivals was?

2. As an adult, what does Wallace see as the purpose of carnivals?

3. Does the plot of "Lost Highway" make sense? Is it supposed to make sense?

4. Why does Wallace believe cloggers have more fun than people at a rock concert?

5. According to Wallace, do writers enjoy watching television? Do writers enjoy being watched? Why do writers watch television?

6. Does Wallace see the events at the Desert Competition as being safe? Why or why not?

7. What caused Lynch's downfall in the movie industry?

8. Does Wallace agree with Hix's argument about "authors"? Why or why not?

9. Why does Wallace feel the Desert Competition is appropriate for Illinois?

10. Why was Wallace assigned to the Illinois State Fair article for Harper's?

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