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

2. What is Mitch Hrlicka's nickname?
(a) Hass.
(b) Xardoz.
(c) Vanna.
(d) H-Dog.

3. Klosterman begins Chapter 8 by talking about which prolific American director?
(a) Spike Lee.
(b) Martin Scorsese.
(c) John Cassavettes.
(d) David Fincher.

4. To Klosterman, serial killing is a modern crime because it validates what?
(a) The absence of a god.
(b) An irrational fear.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The need for psychoanalysis.

5. Why is Madonna an unsuccessful sexual icon?
(a) She cannot act.
(b) She is too talented.
(c) She is too boring.
(d) She tries to hard.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a frequent topic of conversation from Horace and his friends?

2. What is a Laker person's preferred socially-irresponsible rapper?

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

4. Which character did not disappear abruptly at some point in the final season of Saved by the Bell?

5. At the end of Chapter 5, what do most of the Paradise City band members say happened in their hotel room?

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