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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a panic attack in which he feels the world seems almost edible?

2. Which character describes a dark shape that has enveloped him twice?

3. How old is Mario turning in Chapter 56?

4. What is the name of the game the Enfield students invented?

5. What caused Don to give up on high school and football?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallels does Wallace draw between the Entertainment and drugs?

2. What problems does Don Gately have with sobriety?

3. Why does Joelle like to clean?

4. How is Mario affected by his films not being as popular as his father's?

5. In what way has Hal lost Mario?

6. What role does the theme of suicide play in the novel?

7. Why does Hal begin to watch his father's films?

8. Why is Don so interested in Joelle?

9. Why did Avril have an affair during her marriage to James?

10. What are the contents of the Entertainment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Of the Incandenza brothers, which is the most emotionally and psychologically stable? Why do you believe this is so?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the reader have a difficult time discerning Avril's intentions and motivations? What do you think these intentions and motivations are?

Essay Topic 3

Why did James commit suicide? What did his lack of connection with his family have to do with his depression and suicide?

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