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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 thinks their audience is dumb?

2. What kind of shows does Seinfeld find very entertaining?

3. What does Seinfeld's unemployed friend have to work hard at doing?

4. What does Seinfeld say a woman carries in her wallet?

5. What does Seinfeld hate about going to the doctor's?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Seinfeld think about people walking their dogs?

2. What does Seinfeld remember about riding in the car with his parents?

3. What did Seinfeld think about food as a kid?

4. Why does Seinfeld not like going to the doctors?

5. What does Seinfeld say about Superman?

6. Why does Seinfeld think that men like to channel surf?

7. What does Seinfeld wonder about pharmacists and psychiartrists?

8. What did Seinfeld think about fair rides as a kid?

9. What does Seinfeld think about going to the movie theater?

10. Why does Seinfeld think that unemployment is the toughest job?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has Jerry's live act developed over the years? What influence has he had on his contemporaries? Discuss a touring comedian that owes Jerry for part of his act.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following statements to develop a 500-word essay.

1) SEINLANGUAGE is a rehashing of Seinfeld's older material.

2) SEINLANGUAGE take advantage of Seinfeld's popularity and has no real significance as a book.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Seinfeld's writing style. How would you describe Seinfeld's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? Does he use any specific writing techniques? What meaning does Seinfeld's style give to the story?

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