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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. What does Wallace speculate Lynch doesn't intend for "Lost Highway"?
(a) For it to win an award.
(b) For it to be successful.
(c) For it to impact anyone.
(d) For it to make sense.

2. Wallace isn't sure what _____ everyone at the car race is waiting for.
(a) News.
(b) Event.
(c) Food.
(d) Victory.

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

4. Gilder believes technology can be solved with ________.
(a) Less technology.
(b) More reading.
(c) More technology.
(d) More culture.

5. Wallace describes his tennis career as ______ successful.
(a) Less than.
(b) Moderately.
(c) Wildly.
(d) Briefly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Post-structuralists believe that although the historical context can aid a text, much of it really depends on what?

2. Why does Wallace call his tennis style "creative"?

3. When did Lynch first become critically reviled?

4. What ride is Wallace kicked off of?

5. What does Wallace believe about the dialogue in six hours worth of television?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Wallace, what is a "Kmart Person"?

2. How does Wallace suggest a writer rebel against the "new ironic orthodoxy"?

3. Was Wallace a "boring" tennis player? How so?

4. Why did the students argue with their professor's position that works should make no reference to a specific time period?

5. What is a "Lynchian" film?

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

7. To Wallace, is he still a Midwesterner? Why or why not?

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

9. How does sexual harassment make a clear distinction between Eastern and Midwestern women for Wallace?

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

(see the answer keys)

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