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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. Who is Katie in Chapter 2?
(a) Chuck's ex-girlfriend.
(b) Chuck's neice.
(c) Chuck's sim.
(d) The spokeswoman from Entertainment Arts.

2. In Chapter 1, Klosterman says Nora Ephron convinced an entire generation that they should look where for a lover?
(a) Their family.
(b) Their high school sweethearts.
(c) Europe.
(d) Their friends.

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

4. In the Introduction, Klosterman says his goal in writing the novel is to explain what?
(a) Where America is headed.
(b) How we can be happy.
(c) Why we are alive.
(d) Why he hates himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Klosterman think Big Brother would have survived?

3. What did Woody Allen make desirable in the 1970s?

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

5. Which generation does Klosterman acknowledge he belongs to?

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