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Andrew Biss, What’s The Meta?

Andrew Biss, What’s the Meta?

Read What’s the Meta? and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Why does Part 2 deem Part 1 presumptuous?

Part 1 assumes Part 2 will be judgmental if confided in.

Part 1 assumes the other character won’t understand his or her predicament.

Part 2 is overly sensitive.

Part 2 is trying to pick a fight.

2. According to Part 2, what statement is an “embodiment of total, unmitigated verbal and mental atrophy”?

“Yeah, right.”

“Whatever.”

“I’m fine.”

“So what?”

3. According to the passage, what do most people lack?

knowledge

sincerity

empathy

motivation

4. According to Part 2, what is their role?

They are lifeless and only serve to shape the plot.

They are ink on paper and powerful catalysts, without whom there would be no play.

They are simply characters.

They are irrelevant ciphers.

5. How does the passage end?

The passage ends with Part 2’s angry monologue about their meaningless existence.

Part 2 becomes increasingly irritated and storms offstage, leaving Part 1 alone.

Part 1 asks Part 2 to go for a drink, and they walk offstage together.

Part 1 continues to bemoan his existence. The lights fade into nothingness.