Question 8 (5 points) (MC)
Read the passage and then answer the question that follows.
When Mike adjusted his bicycle, I thought I was watching a chess game. He would stare at a part for a while before he acted. Then we would
wait for his opponent's response. For example, he stared for ten minutes before tightening the rear sprockets. Then he rode the bike for a
minute, analyzing the change in the bike's performance. At first, I thought he was too careful. Now, I realize he didn't want the bicycle to
become his Waterloo
Which is a true statement about the passage?
(5 points)
a
b
It contains technical language but no analogy or allusion.
It contains an analogy, an allusion, and technical language.
It contains an analogy and technical language but no allusion.
It contains an allusion and technical language but no amplify

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