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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Get married.
(b) Have children.
(c) Go to grad school.
(d) Join the army.

2. In what year did Klosterman attend the Pop Music Studies conference?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1990.

3. What did Klosterman spend the first twenty minutes of his interview with the front man of Soul Asylum discussing?
(a) His time at Dartmouth.
(b) The influence of ELO.
(c) What he had for breakfast.
(d) The best bars in Minneapolis.

4. To Klosterman, serial killing is a modern crime because it validates what?
(a) The need for psychoanalysis.
(b) The absence of a god.
(c) An irrational fear.
(d) Nothing.

5. What is Klosterman's personal analogy for time?
(a) A zipline.
(b) A train.
(c) A stream.
(d) A cliff.

6. What social activity is Eric Nuzum passionate about?
(a) Free speech.
(b) Environmentalism.
(c) Sexual health.
(d) Health care reform.

7. What realization does the protagonist of Waking Life have at the end of the film?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is in a film.
(c) He is having a nightmare.
(d) He is awake.

8. At a Dixie Chicks concert in Chapter 14, Klosterman realizes who are the new teenage boys?
(a) Young adult males.
(b) Walmart moms.
(c) Old men.
(d) Teenage girls.

9. What topic of conversation did Gacy continuously bring up with Nuzum in their phone calls?
(a) The existence of God.
(b) Nuzum's marriage.
(c) Movies.
(d) His innocence.

10. At the end of Chapter 16, Klosterman declares that who controls the content of modern newspapers?
(a) Copy editors.
(b) Page designers.
(c) Management.
(d) Editorial writers.

11. In the beginning of Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman discusses whether time travel or what will happen first?
(a) The rapture.
(b) Hover cars.
(c) Sentient metal.
(d) A woman president.

12. Why did many critics dislike the end of Reality Bites?
(a) They though it was too pat.
(b) They thought it was ineptly edited.
(c) They thought Winona Ryder chose the wrong man.
(d) They did not believe Ben Stiller as a nice guy.

13. Which of the following is not a story in the heavy news day Klosterman describes in a hypothetical question?
(a) The discovery of the Loch Ness Monster.
(b) The President may have thyroid cancer.
(c) The capture of a Sasquatch.
(d) The beginning of World War III.

14. What does Klosterman state is the essential question of all modern great films?
(a) What is right and wrong?
(b) What is reality?
(c) What separates art and commerce?
(d) Is God dead?

15. What is Mitch Hrlicka's nickname?
(a) Hass.
(b) Vanna.
(c) Xardoz.
(d) H-Dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What path do Gen X'ers normally choose in life, according to Klosterman in Chapter 12?

2. Who was granola designed initially to feed?

3. What term does Klosterman use in Chapter 12 to describe Gen X'ers?

4. What religion was Klosterman raised in?

5. As a child, Dahmer would pretend he had what affliction?

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