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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Excerpt from Downtown Owl and Excerpt from Eating the Dinosaur.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did many critics dislike the end of Reality Bites?
(a) They did not believe Ben Stiller as a nice guy.
(b) They thought it was ineptly edited.
(c) They though it was too pat.
(d) They thought Winona Ryder chose the wrong man.

3. In chapter 9, who does Klosterman suggest is the only person still using the term World Wide Web?
(a) His father.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Bill Gates.

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

5. In Chapter 15, Derf says that having known Jeffrey Dahmer is like having known whom?
(a) John Goodman.
(b) Michael J. Fox.
(c) Jerry Seinfeld.
(d) Chris Rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the introduction, what data does Klosterman say is the way he analyzes his goal?

2. Why did Chet's father buy him a bar in Owl?

3. In Chapter 13, Klosterman questions the logic of the protagonists' choices in The Matrix and Vanilla Sky because why?

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

5. What southern fast food establishment plays prominently in country music, according to Klosterman in Chapter 14?

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