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Among the strategies TV writers use to deal with television's fragmentation are
 
  a. ending each episode on a note of narrative suspense designed to draw viewers back
  the following week.
  b. having a voice-over announcer verbally recapitulate the previous episode's
  highlights.
  c. interepisodic redundancy.
  d. rerunning episodes.
  e. All of the above.

Question 2

Television is the quintessential postmodern art form because
 
  a. it comes to us in 20-, 60-, and 90-minute chopped up narratives.
  b. its fictional programs typically come to us in fragments as 13 to 22 weekly
  installments.
  c. its weekly program episodes are broken into multiple acts and interrupted by
  commercials and promotions.
  d. its temporal, linear narratives are composed of disjointed plots, disconnected
  elements, and an aesthetic of excess.
  e. All of the above.



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Answer to Question 1

a, b, c

Answer to Question 2

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