David Foster Wallace bibliography - Quiz
  • 1. Which author wrote 'Darkness Legible, Unquiet Lines: Mood Disorders in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace'?
A) Frank Louis Cioffi
B) Kiki Benzon
C) Stephen Burn
D) Mark Bresnan
  • 2. In which journal was Mark Bresnan's 'The Work of Play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest' published?
A) Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
B) Twentieth Century Literature
C) Studies in the Novel
D) Narrative
  • 3. What is the subject of the article by Stephen Burn published in 2003?
A) A source for the title of The Broom of the System
B) Masculinity in Fight Club
C) The use of footnotes in Wallace's work
D) Addiction in Infinite Jest
  • 4. Who authored the article 'An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest'?
A) Iannis Goerlandt
B) Frank Louis Cioffi
C) Adam Kelly
D) Mary K. Holland
  • 5. Andrew Steven Delfino's MA thesis explores portrayals of masculinities in Infinite Jest and which other novel?
A) Fight Club
B) The Brothers Karamazov
C) Incarnations of Burned Children
D) The Broom of the System
  • 6. Which philosophers does Petrus van Ewijk mention in relation to the AA Recovery Program in Infinite Jest?
A) Pine, Metz, and Zubarik
B) Trilling, Dostoevsky, and Hopkins
C) Carver, Palahniuk, and Powers
D) Wittgenstein, Buber, and Levinas
  • 7. Paul Giles wrote an article titled 'Sentimental Posthumanism' about which author?
A) Raymond Carver
B) Chuck Palahniuk
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky
D) David Foster Wallace
  • 8. Iannis Goerlandt wrote an article focusing on pain in which Wallace work?
A) Infinite Jest
B) Incarnations of Burned Children
C) The Broom of the System
D) A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
  • 9. What is the title of the article by Mary K. Holland published in Critique in 2006?
A) Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
B) 'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
C) The Work of Play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
D) Put the book down and slowly walk away: Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
  • 10. Timothy Jacobs compared the work of David Foster Wallace to which Russian novelist?
A) Fyodor Dostoevsky
B) Anton Chekhov
C) Vladimir Nabokov
D) Leo Tolstoy
  • 11. Adam Kelly's article 'Dialectic of Sincerity' discusses David Foster Wallace and which other figure?
A) Raymond Carver
B) Lionel Trilling
C) Gerard Manley Hopkins
D) Richard Powers
  • 12. Which article by Iannis Goerlandt examines 'Fußnoten und Performativität'?
A) Fallstudien in Am Rande bemerkt
B) Put the book down and slowly walk away
C) Still steaming as its many arms extended
D) David Foster Wallace in Post-war Literatures in English
  • 13. Which academic article discusses the minimalism of Raymond Carver in relation to Wallace's 'A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life'?
A) The Prodigious Fiction by Tom LeClair
B) The Brothers Incandenza by Timothy Jacobs
C) Sentimental Posthumanism by Paul Giles
D) Inarticulation and the Figure of Enjoyment by Dan Tysdal
  • 14. Tom LeClair's 1996 article in Critique covers David Foster Wallace and which other authors?
A) Lionel Trilling and Gerard Manley Hopkins
B) Chuck Palahniuk and Raymond Carver
C) Richard Powers and William T. Vollmann
D) Fyodor Dostoevsky and Martin Buber
  • 15. Catherine Nichols wrote an article titled 'Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival' about which book?
A) The Broom of the System
B) Infinite Jest
C) Incarnations of Burned Children
D) A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
  • 16. In which publication did Dave Eggers interview David Foster Wallace in 2003?
A) Creating Nonfiction
B) Salon
C) The Believer
D) The Boston Globe
  • 17. What is the title of the 2013 book by Bryan A. Garner and David Foster Wallace regarding language and writing?
A) Quack This Way
B) The Usage Wars
C) Consider David Foster Wallace
D) Infinite Zest
  • 18. Who authored the book 'Understanding David Foster Wallace'?
A) Adam Kelly
B) Clare Hayes-Brady
C) Marshall Boswell
D) Greg Carlisle
  • 19. Which publication featured the interview 'Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man'?
A) The Boston Globe
B) The Believer
C) Bookselling This Week
D) Amherst Magazine
  • 20. In which year was 'Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself' by David Lipsky published?
A) 2010
B) 2012
C) 2007
D) 2013
  • 21. Which radio program hosted a 2001 interview titled 'The Usage Wars'?
A) Bookworm
B) Charlie Rose
C) Lewis Burke Frumkes Radio Show
D) The Connection
  • 22. Who wrote 'The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity and Resistance'?
A) Jeffrey Severs
B) Clare Hayes-Brady
C) David Hering
D) Adam S. Miller
  • 23. In what year was the novel Infinite Jest published?
A) 1989
B) 2011
C) 1996
D) 1987
  • 24. Which university did David Foster Wallace work at in Claremont, California?
A) Pomona College
B) Illinois State University
C) Amherst College
D) Harvard University
  • 25. What is the title of the short story collection Wallace published in 1989?
A) Girl with Curious Hair
B) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
C) Oblivion: Stories
D) Consider the Lobster
  • 26. Which novel was published posthumously in 2011?
A) Infinite Jest
B) String Theory
C) The Pale King
D) The Broom of the System
  • 27. What year was The Broom of the System published?
A) 1996
B) 1989
C) 2004
D) 1987
  • 28. With whom did David Foster Wallace co-write Signifying Rappers?
A) James Ryerson
B) John Updike
C) Mark Costello
D) Jay Garfield
  • 29. In which city is Illinois State University located?
A) Amherst
B) Claremont
C) Normal
D) New York
  • 30. Which collection of essays was published in 2005?
A) Both Flesh and Not
B) String Theory
C) A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
D) Consider the Lobster
  • 31. What is the subject of the book String Theory?
A) Rap music
B) Television
C) Tennis
D) Mathematics
  • 32. The short story 'The Depressed Person' was reprinted in which collection?
A) Oblivion
B) Girl with Curious Hair
C) The Pale King
D) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  • 33. Which essay was reprinted as 'This Is Water'?
A) Kenyon Commencement Address
B) E Unibus Pluram
C) Consider the Lobster
D) Host
  • 34. What was the original title of the essay reprinted as 'Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley'?
A) The String Theory
B) Federer as Religious Experience
C) Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornado
D) Democracy and Commerce at the US Open
  • 35. Which short story was included in the collection Girl with Curious Hair?
A) The Depressed Person
B) The Compliance Branch
C) John Billy
D) Asset
  • 36. In what year was Tim Jacobs's review of 'The Broom of the System' published?
A) 2013
B) 2001
C) 2009
D) 2004
  • 37. What is the title of the review written by Wyatt Mason?
A) The Map and the Territory
B) The Fight: Considering David Foster Wallace Considering You
C) Don't like it? You don't have to play
D) Mister Squishy, c'est moi
  • 38. Who wrote 'The Map and the Territory: Infinite Boston'?
A) Adam Kelly
B) Scott Esposito
C) Michael Harris
D) Kiki Benzon
  • 39. Which publication featured a symposium titled 'Who Was David Foster Wallace?'?
A) The Quarterly Conversation
B) Rain Taxi Review of Books
C) The Millions
D) London Review of Books
  • 40. In what year was Kiki Benzon's essay on Oblivion published?
A) 2013
B) 2000
C) 2009
D) 2004
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