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