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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During what era did television unseat newspapers as the primary source of news. according to Klosterman?
(a) The Reagan years.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The Vietnam era.
(d) The immediate wake of 9/11.

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

4. What Gacy trinket does Eric Nuzum have in his house?
(a) A clown nose.
(b) A signed photograph.
(c) A murder weapon.
(d) A painting.

5. Which of the following cereal icons is not cited in Chapter 10 as a Sisyphean character?
(a) The Cookie Crisp Crook.
(b) Tony the Tiger.
(c) The Trix Rabbit.
(d) Sonny the Cuckoo Bird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What point does Valentine make about life in Owl?

2. What does Valentine say is thriving in Owl?

3. At the Pop Music Studies conference, Klosterman is disheartened when a critic he is talking with orders what at the bar?

4. What does Klosterman plan to do at the end of Chapter 15 in order to meet a serial killer?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do page designers affect the news?

2. Describe Klosterman's process for extracting truth from low culture.

3. How was the Tori Paradox the most realistic part of Saved by the Bell?

4. How was granola developed?

5. How is Luke Skywalker's relationship with Darth Vader a familiar relationship to Gen X'ers?

6. Why is the Pop Music Studies conference that Klosterman attends in Chapter 17 not a rocking place?

7. How does the timing of sources affect bias in the news, according to Klosterman?

8. What example does Klosterman offer in Eating the Dinosaur to illustrate the loss of origins in time travel?

9. How has the portrayal of reality in films changed between the golden age of the 1970s and today, according to Klosterman?

10. What is the value of lyrics in popular music?

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