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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '2: Billy Sim, 0:12' and '3:What Happens When People Stop Being Polite, 0:26'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Klosterman believes that all women think John Cusack is really his character from which film?
(a) High Fidelity.
(b) The Sure Thing.
(c) Say Anything.
(d) Con Air.

2. According to Klosterman, Coldplay is a worst version of which two other bands?
(a) Blur and Oasis.
(b) Indigo Girls and The Cranberries.
(c) Travis and Radiohead.
(d) REM and Blind Melon.

3. What does Klosterman do with his Sim at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Send him to work.
(b) Buy him an espresso machine.
(c) Give him Free Will.
(d) Kill him.

4. According to Klosterman in Chapter 1, an intellectual relationship is no different from what?
(a) A teacher-student dynamic.
(b) A friendship.
(c) Mutual hatred.
(d) A sexual one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Klosterman in Chapter 3, every Real World character became a what?

2. What does Klosterman initially suspect the Sims to be a critique of?

3. Which artist does Klosterman quote in Chapter 2 as voice questioning materialism?

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

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

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