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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '4: Every Dog Must Have His Every Day, Every Drunk Must Have His Drink, 0:42' and '5: Appetite for Replication, 0:56'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What separates Paradise City from other Guns-N-Roses tribute bands?
(a) They don't wear wigs.
(b) They have learned some bottleg Chinese Democracy tunes.
(c) They play their own instruments.
(d) They play drunk.

2. In the Communications and Society class Klosterman describes in Chapter 1, what does the professor claim is indoctrination for children?
(a) Action figures.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) Fairy tales.
(d) Breakfast.

3. What did Woody Allen make desirable in the 1970s?
(a) Neuroses.
(b) Glasses.
(c) Wit.
(d) Being from New York.

4. What is the mistake Klosterman's friends make when they watch romantic comedies and maudlin family dramas?
(a) They think they are capable of writing them.
(b) They assume life should be like them.
(c) They criticize them as they would great art.
(d) They dismiss them out of hand.

5. In Chapter 4, Klosterman notes that Bruce Springsteen is a hero to what?
(a) The uneducated.
(b) The middle class.
(c) People from New Jersey.
(d) The French.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Klosterman, the characters in The Sims are slave to what?

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

3. In Chapter 1, Klosterman says Nora Ephron convinced an entire generation that they should look where for a lover?

4. When does Klosterman say he began watching The Real World?

5. Which song does Klosterman cite as having superior insights on a theme to Born to Run?

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