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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '16: All I Know is What I Read in the Papers, 2:03', '17: I, Rock Chump, 2:19' and '18: How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found, 2:28'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Klosterman plan to do at the end of Chapter 15 in order to meet a serial killer?
(a) Join a prison correspondence program.
(b) Pick up hitchhikers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Frequent S and M bars.

2. What is a Laker person's preferred socially-irresponsible rapper?
(a) 50 Cent.
(b) Eminem.
(c) Lil' John.
(d) Ice Cube.

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

4. In Chapter 1, Klosterman jokes about which religious sect's young people carping about whether they practice?
(a) The Amish.
(b) The Mormons.
(c) The Satanists.
(d) The Davidians.

5. In addition to realizing that life is inherently disappointing, what reason does does Klosterman offer for Generation X's decision to abandon working class values in Chapter 12?
(a) They were abandoned by their families.
(b) They never lived through a war.
(c) They all went to college.
(d) They are lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Puck removed from The Real World cast, according to Klosterman?

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

3. Why did many critics dislike the end of Reality Bites?

4. Klosterman theorizes in Chapter 2 that many who play The Sims enact what?

5. What era does Klosterman assault the country for romanticizing in Chapter 14?

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