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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What realization does the protagonist of Waking Life have at the end of the film?
(a) He is having a nightmare.
(b) He is awake.
(c) He is dead.
(d) He is in a film.

2. Which of the following is a reason Klosterman offers for why mix CD's are less effective than mix tapes?
(a) You cannot cut off part of a long song.
(b) Many songs are copy-protected.
(c) The CD is less durable.
(d) The listener can skip songs.

3. What topic of conversation did Gacy continuously bring up with Nuzum in their phone calls?
(a) The existence of God.
(b) Movies.
(c) Nuzum's marriage.
(d) His innocence.

4. At the end of Chapter 14, Klosterman argues that most people see life as what?
(a) Torture.
(b) A vacation.
(c) A job.
(d) An enigma.

5. In Klosterman's hypothetical newspaper scenario in Chapter 16, why does the reporter miss the Mayor's call?
(a) He goes to his daughter's soccer game.
(b) He falls asleep at his desk.
(c) He is getting a Dr. Pepper.
(d) He gets caught up in an episode of CHiPS.

6. When did Klosterman become completely dedicated to watching Saved by the Bell regularly?
(a) During his first internship.
(b) Eighth grade.
(c) His freshman year of high school.
(d) College.

7. In Chapter 10, Klosterman characterizes himself as what type of person?
(a) A hedonistic person.
(b) An intellectual person.
(c) A self-improving person.
(d) A nonsense person.

8. What path do Gen X'ers normally choose in life, according to Klosterman in Chapter 12?
(a) The lowkey path.
(b) The difficult path.
(c) The comfortable path.
(d) They refuse to choose a path.

9. Which film was the first film Klosterman saw in a movie theater?
(a) Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
(b) Raiders of the Lost Ark.
(c) The Empire Strikes Back.
(d) Return of the Jedi.

10. A story about what musician does Klosterman cite in Chapter 16 for its admitted fraudulence?
(a) Billie Joe Armstrong.
(b) Ringo Starr.
(c) Ryan Adams.
(d) Michael Stipe.

11. In Chapter 14, which country star's song does Chuck Klosterman dissect in detail?
(a) Toby Keith.
(b) George Strait.
(c) Trisha Yearwood.
(d) Tim McGraw.

12. In his hypothetical questions, whose skull does Klosterman ask if a person would display in their home?
(a) Jesus's.
(b) His.
(c) Their mother's.
(d) Hitler's.

13. Which of the following is not an item Klosterman analyzes in Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs?
(a) The first season of The Real World.
(b) The Pamela/Tommy Lee sex tape.
(c) The Left Behind series.
(d) The death of Jackson Pollock.

14. What term does Klosterman use in Chapter 14 to describe mainstream country music?
(a) Real life country.
(b) Nascar country.
(c) Garth Brooks country.
(d) Walmart country.

15. In addition to realizing that life is inherently disappointing, what reason does does Klosterman offer for Generation X's decision to abandon working class values in Chapter 12?
(a) They never lived through a war.
(b) They were abandoned by their families.
(c) They all went to college.
(d) They are lazy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Star Wars character does Klosterman argue was the hero of every kid who watched the franchise?

2. Which Saved by the Bell actor did not take a madly divergent role after the show?

3. According to Klosterman in Chapter 16, why do copy editors insert false information into a news story?

4. What did Derf write in relation to Jeffrey Dahmer?

5. 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?

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