1. Fife’s comment that “he’s one of those exploratory robotic spacecraft that somehow slip past the gravitational fields of all nine planets in the solar system and never orbit or crash into anything, and eventually they sail out of the solar system, blown by the solar wind beyond the heliosphere into deep space” (71) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Tautology.
(d) Simile.

2. Which of the following does Fife note having worked to expose throughout his filmmaking career?
(a) Cash money hijinks.
(b) Compassion, mercy, and helpfulness.
(c) Cadences, marching, and high-stepping.
(d) Corruption, mendacity, and hypocrisy.

3. Which of the following is noted as a servant in the Chapman home?
(a) Alicia.
(b) Consuela.
(c) Susannah.
(d) Renée.

4. As which of the following does Fife define “a Writer,” as he had imagined himself being (80)?
(a) “A man with a child bride and listening friends.”
(b) “A man committed to understanding himself and the world by means of language.”
(c) “A man committed to understanding the means of language.”
(d) “A man committed to understanding nothing by the means of language.”

5. The comment that “he was unable to speak from that gap and had to cry out, like a mountain climber fallen into a glacial crevasse” (108) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.