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RCMultiple Choice

Writing Workshop: Comparing Texts — Cumulative exam

Question 2 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B

Read the excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, Remington-hung, double-windowed against the November heat, insulated from Administrative sounds by the reception area outside, at which Uncle Charles, Mr. deLint and I were lately received.What is the setting in this excerpt?

Answer
A
at a university office
B
at a dorm room
C
at the tennis courts
D
at Uncle Charles’s home

Explanation

The narrator says he is in “University Administration,” in an office with wood walls and windows. These details place the scene at a university office, not in a dorm room, on the tennis courts, or at Uncle Charles’s home.

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