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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) The Sure Thing.
(b) Say Anything.
(c) High Fidelity.
(d) Con Air.

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

3. Which Coldplay song does Klosterman mock continually in Chapter 1?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Viva La Vida.
(c) Fix You.
(d) Clocks.

4. Which two "brat pack" films does Klosterman reference in Chapter 3?
(a) The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.
(b) Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink.
(c) Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club.
(d) Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo's Fire.

5. Klosterman theorizes in Chapter 2 that many who play The Sims enact what?
(a) Their nightmares.
(b) Their fantasies.
(c) Their twenties.
(d) Their own lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klosterman admit The Real World consists of?

2. In the Introduction, Klosterman says his goal in writing the novel is to explain what?

3. Which popular NBC show does Klosterman cite in this chapter as having unrealistic romantic ideals?

4. What term does Klosterman use for the female John Cusack ideal?

5. Who is Katie in Chapter 2?

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