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