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