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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a modern film that Klosterman cites as one of the films worth watching and discussing?
(a) Magnolia.
(b) ExistenZ.
(c) Memento.
(d) Fight Club.

2. What does Valentine say is thriving in Owl?
(a) The new Arby's.
(b) The movie theater.
(c) The bowling alley.
(d) The water park.

3. According to Klosterman in Chapter 16, why do copy editors insert false information into a news story?
(a) To discredit a writer.
(b) To play with readers for fun.
(c) To push an agenda.
(d) In the name of fairness.

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

5. According to Klosterman in Chapter 12, The Empire Strikes Back celebrates what?
(a) The uniting of former foes.
(b) The friendship of its characters.
(c) The defeat of its characters.
(d) The loss of innocence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, which actor's 1970s career does Klosterman use as an example of films that expressed the zeitgeist?

2. What word does Kirk Cameron use to describe the Rapture as depicted in Left Behind in the interview quoted in Chapter 17?

3. In what year did Klosterman attend the Pop Music Studies conference?

4. At the end of Chapter 14, Klosterman argues that most people see life as what?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 16, what does Klosterman say to those who hate the media?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the timing of sources affect bias in the news, according to Klosterman?

2. What example does Klosterman offer in Eating the Dinosaur to illustrate the loss of origins in time travel?

3. What is the essence of coolness, as described in Chapter 10?

4. Why is serial killing a modern crime?

5. Why is the Pop Music Studies conference that Klosterman attends in Chapter 17 not a rocking place?

6. Why does Klosterman posit that traveling forward in time is less fraught than traveling back?

7. How are the musicians at the Pop Music Studies conference antithetical in their remarks to the spirit of the event?

8. How was the Tori Paradox the most realistic part of Saved by the Bell?

9. Why does Mitch dislike his coach in Downtown Owl?

10. What is the book Left Behind about?

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