Reading Comprehension Quiz (David Foster Wallace, “This Is Water”)
Reading Comprehension Quiz
David Foster Wallace, “This Is Water”
Read “This Is Water” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.
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The example that Wallace starts with is a(n)
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In paragraph 2, ubiquitous means
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Question
Wallace mentions that a liberal arts education
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What does Wallace say the, “real, no-bull value of your liberal arts education” is?
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Wallace assumes, in his example, that these graduates will “get up in the morning, go to your challenging job” and
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Question
In the supermarket example, Wallace creates a picture of modern life that is
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Wallace allows his audience to identify with him in his frustrations of the supermarket, then carefully constructs examples where the audience is meant to realize
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According to Wallace, the “only thing that is capital-T true” is
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Wallace encourages the audience to choose a higher power to worship because
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What does Wallace say is “unimaginably hard” to do?
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