Read the excerpt from "harrison bergeron."

a police photograph of harrison bergeron was flashed on the screen—upside down, then sideways, upside down again, then right side up.

this excerpt is an example of satire because it humorously

a. exposes the incompetence that this society views as normal.
b. portrays harrison bergeron as being more dangerous than he really is.
c. exaggerates the effects of george bergeron’s handicaps.
d. illustrates how television and other media control society.

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.