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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Excerpt from Downtown Owl and Excerpt from Eating the Dinosaur.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 12, Klosterman compares Darth Vader's appeal to Luke at the end of The Empire Strike's Back to the modern pressures of a twenty-something to do what?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Go to grad school.
(c) Get married.
(d) Have children.

2. Which chapter of this book is fictional?
(a) Downtown Owl.
(b) 33.
(c) Appetite for Replication.
(d) Eating the Dinosaur.

3. What did Derf write in relation to Jeffrey Dahmer?
(a) An obituary.
(b) A comic book.
(c) A biography.
(d) A Time Magazine article.

4. Klosterman theorizes in Chapter 2 that many who play The Sims enact what?
(a) Their nightmares.
(b) Their twenties.
(c) Their own lives.
(d) Their fantasies.

5. Which of the following is not an inherent problem that Klosterman lists in Eating the Dinosaur?
(a) It changes memory.
(b) It leads to multiple realities.
(c) It is scientifically impossible.
(d) It eliminates the orgins of things.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 4, Klosterman says that Joel's music is about accepting what?

2. In Chapter 6, which Comedy Central show does Klosterman claim is detrimental to society?

3. Which Coldplay song does Klosterman mock continually in Chapter 1?

4. At a Dixie Chicks concert in Chapter 14, Klosterman realizes who are the new teenage boys?

5. What social group does Klosterman acknowledge at the end of Chapter 8 have missed the internet porn revolution?

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