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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. How is Chapter 17 presented?
(a) As a quote.
(b) As an interview.
(c) As a newspaper article.
(d) As a poem.
2. Why does the author say he was given a new social security number?
(a) Because he moved to a new country.
(b) Because he worked for the government.
(c) He was not given a new social security number.
(d) Because he lost his.
3. In Chapter 10, who justifies the role of large organizations?
(a) The government.
(b) The author himself.
(c) The organizations themselves.
(d) No one.
4. In Chapter 9, where does the author say he kept his notes for this novel?
(a) Computer files.
(b) His wallet.
(c) In a secret safe.
(d) Notebooks.
5. In Chapter 7, who gets on a the minibus?
(a) Claude.
(b) Mel.
(c) Sheri.
(d) Dean.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 9, what year does the author say it is?
2. What does Chapter 4 consist of?
3. In Chapter 18, how does Glendenning feel about Desk Names?
4. In Chapter 9, who does the author blame for problems with editing this novel?
5. What textual feature does Chapter 9 have that is missing from the other chapters?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 10, how does the author explain the existence of the bureaucratic systems he describes?
2. While describing Stecyk in Chapter 12, what does the narrator comment on about the boy's future?
3. In Chapter 9, what does the author say is wrong with his publisher?
4. What makes Chapter 4 different from Chapters 1-3?
5. In Chapter 9, what does the author say about the first few pages of any book?
6. In Chapter 19, what seems to be the favored solution to what is wrong with America?
7. Why does Wallace have to watch the interviews in Chapter 14?
8. What does Stecyk try to do in Chapter 12?
9. What is Stecyk's job in Chapter 14?
10. How is Chapter 9 different from the rest of the chapters in this novel?
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