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David Foster Wallace’s Postmodern Voices — Quiz

Question 1 • Literature and Composition III

Read the excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest . My silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the AC’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. The coach, in a slight accent neither British nor Australian, is telling C.T. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. In this excerpt, the narrator is providing

Answer
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only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences.
B
both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries.
C
only objective information about people, setting, and events.
D
a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.
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