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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. In Downtown Owl, what rumor is spreading concerning Coach Laidlaw?
(a) He has lost money in a bad investment.
(b) He got a girl pregnant.
(c) He has cancer.
(d) He is leaving the school?

2. Why did many critics dislike the end of Reality Bites?
(a) They did not believe Ben Stiller as a nice guy.
(b) They thought it was ineptly edited.
(c) They though it was too pat.
(d) They thought Winona Ryder chose the wrong man.

3. Who was granola designed initially to feed?
(a) Horses.
(b) Sanitarium inmates.
(c) Overseas travelers.
(d) Nuns in seclusion.

4. Which of the following was not a former mascot for Owl High?
(a) Normans.
(b) Owls.
(c) Satans.
(d) Eagles.

5. What does Klosterman insist was born in the story of the Star Wars franchise?
(a) Generation X.
(b) His hatred of robots.
(c) Agnostic spirituality.
(d) The internet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Kirk Cameron use to describe the Rapture as depicted in Left Behind in the interview quoted in Chapter 17?

2. In Chapter 13, Klosterman questions the logic of the protagonists' choices in The Matrix and Vanilla Sky because why?

3. According to Horace, what do real men drink?

4. Where in school was Klosterman when he began researching serial killers?

5. Which of the following cereal icons is not cited in Chapter 10 as a Sisyphean character?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Laura dispirited by her interview with Walter Valentine?

3. How are some cereal icons representative of the pained desire for perfection and acceptance?

4. Why does Klosterman posit that traveling forward in time is less fraught than traveling back?

5. What is the book Left Behind about?

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

7. How has the quality of the Star Wars franchise been incorrectly assessed, according to Klosterman in Chapter 12?

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

9. What is Klosterman's fascination with serial killers?

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

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