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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What path do Gen X'ers normally choose in life, according to Klosterman in Chapter 12?

3. Which British prime minister did HG Wells hate?

4. In one hypothetical question, Klosterman offers the questioned a choice between a vacation in Europe or where?

5. In the beginning of Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman discusses whether time travel or what will happen first?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is serial killing a modern crime?

2. Why do sports writers hate their work?

3. What is the book Left Behind about?

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

5. Why is being a serial killer more authentic than being a regular celebrity?

6. How are the musicians at the Pop Music Studies conference antithetical in their remarks to the spirit of the event?

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

8. What essential beliefs does Generation X have, according to Chuck Klosterman?

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

10. How was granola developed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beginning in the first chapter and continuing throughout several essays that follow, Klosterman discusses the fake emotion and false expectations that popular culture creates. Write an essay about false reality that pop culture creates. What specific examples does Klosterman provide? How does he say these products affect generational consciousness? How have they affected his own life?

Essay Topic 2

From Klosterman's point-of-view, certain individuals are able to effortlessly embody abstract ideas. Write an essay about his exploration of Marilyn Monroe and Pamela Anderson. How does each woman typify the sexuality of her era? What limitations on the public's understanding of these women does this symbolic quality create? Why is Anderson, in Klosterman's opinion, a more effective sex symbol than Madonna?

Essay Topic 3

Choose three of the movies that Chuck Klosterman discusses in Chapter 13. In an essay discuss what all of these films have in common thematically. Why does Klosterman think that these are among the most effective films of the modern age? How do these films, as Klosterman argues, create the reality that others experience? How do their presentations of reality differ the presentations from film of the 1970's?

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