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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 event in an episode of Saved by the Bell struck Klosterman's friend Joel as ridiculous?
(a) Mr. Belding blackmailing Zack.
(b) The Girls of Bayside calendar.
(c) Oil being discovered under the Bayside goalposts.
(d) Zack freezing time.

2. How does Klosterman think Big Brother would have survived?
(a) If there was mroe arguing.
(b) If there was a soundtrack.
(c) If more cast members slept together.
(d) If someone died.

3. Between which years does Klosterman focus his basketball debate in Chapter 8?
(a) 1975-1979.
(b) 2000-2007.
(c) 1980-1989.
(d) 1984-1991.

4. What is the preferred drug of Laker people?
(a) Pot.
(b) Meth.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Crack.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, which country star's song does Chuck Klosterman dissect in detail?

2. At the end of Chapter 16, Klosterman declares that who controls the content of modern newspapers?

3. In Chapter 12, Klosterman compares Darth Vader's appeal to Luke at the end of The Empire Strike's Back to the modern pressures of a twenty-something to do what?

4. Which film does Klosterman like that virtually no one else seems to?

5. When do American's generally stop playing soccer?

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