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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 4, what does Klosterman believe Generations X's singular goal is?
(a) Making art.
(b) Being cool.
(c) Owning things.
(d) Getting laid.

2. What is incorrect about the story of Danny Ainge biting Tree Rollins in the 1984 Eastern playoffs?
(a) Ainge did not draw blood.
(b) Rollins dared Ainge to bite him.
(c) No biting occured.
(d) Rollins bit Ainge.

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

4. How does Klosterman describe his desire to protect Marilyn Monroe in Chapter 6?
(a) Romantic.
(b) Inexplicable.
(c) All-consuming.
(d) Paternal.

5. What Joel album does Klosterman insist was a universally loved?
(a) Glass Houses.
(b) River of Dreams.
(c) An Innocent Man.
(d) The Stranger.

6. What social group does Klosterman acknowledge at the end of Chapter 8 have missed the internet porn revolution?
(a) Mormons.
(b) Women.
(c) Californians.
(d) The elderly.

7. In his latter work, Billy Joel expresses boredom with what?
(a) Children.
(b) Love.
(c) Success.
(d) America.

8. Which Coldplay song does Klosterman mock continually in Chapter 1?
(a) Viva La Vida.
(b) Fix You.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Clocks.

9. Why does Klosterman think artists like Billy Joel are largely ignored?
(a) They are short.
(b) They write forgettable music.
(c) They personalities are forgettable.
(d) They write for working-class folk.

10. Klosterman believes the Laker-Celtic argument shows what about people?
(a) We all hate Boston.
(b) We long for easy metaphors.
(c) We don't understand basketball theory.
(d) We are all racist.

11. 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.

12. Which song does Klosterman cite as having superior insights on a theme to Born to Run?
(a) Moving Out.
(b) On the Road to Find Out.
(c) Immigrant Song.
(d) Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

13. What separates Paradise City from other Guns-N-Roses tribute bands?
(a) They don't wear wigs.
(b) They have learned some bottleg Chinese Democracy tunes.
(c) They play their own instruments.
(d) They play drunk.

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

15. What is something that every first-time Sim player does, according to developer Will Wright?
(a) Go to the bathroom on themselves.
(b) Seduce a married woman.
(c) Not get a job.
(d) Kill the Sim.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which generation does Klosterman acknowledge he belongs to?

2. What can Klosterman not picture Marilyn Monroe doing?

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

4. Which of Monroe's marriages does Klosterman discuss the most in Chapter 6?

5. What does Paradise City say they get that most original bands do not?

(see the answer keys)

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