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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through '6: Ten Seconds to Love, 0:71' and '7: George Will vs. Nick Hornby, 0:86'.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Klosterman, Billy Joel is great despite what?
(a) Not being cool.
(b) Playing the piano.
(c) Being old.
(d) Making music in the 1980s.

2. According to Klosterman in Chapter 3, every Real World character became a what?
(a) Type.
(b) God.
(c) Pariah.
(d) Star.

3. At the end of Chapter 5, what do most of the Paradise City band members say happened in their hotel room?
(a) They all got laid.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They got in a fight by the pool.
(d) They kicked their drummer out.

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

5. Which of the following characters is not referenced in Chapter 1?
(a) Cliff Huxtable.
(b) Tyler Durden.
(c) Bridget Jones.
(d) Lloyd Dobler.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, the band members of Paradise City flip through stations looking for what?

2. In the Communications and Society class Klosterman describes in Chapter 1, what does the professor claim is indoctrination for children?

3. In his grandest statement of Chapter 6, Klosterman says Anderson represents what?

4. Why does Klosterman think artists like Billy Joel are largely ignored?

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

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