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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The convoluted final hypothetical question of this section concerns which deceased actor?
(a) Christopher Reeve.
(b) Phil Hartman.
(c) John Ritter.
(d) Richard Pryor.

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

4. At the beginning of Chapter 16, what does Klosterman say to those who hate the media?
(a) They should.
(b) They are taking in the wrong media.
(c) Move to Europe.
(d) The media hates them.

5. What does Klosterman state is the essential question of all modern great films?
(a) What is reality?
(b) What separates art and commerce?
(c) What is right and wrong?
(d) Is God dead?

6. According to Horace, what do real men drink?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Wine coolers.
(c) Water.
(d) Deer.

7. Which television show does Klosterman cite as an example of an important program?
(a) Frontline.
(b) Twin Peaks.
(c) The Wire.
(d) X Files.

8. In one of the hypothetical questions, Klosterman discusses a person who is perfect in every way, except their only cultural reference is what film?
(a) The Princess Bride.
(b) Videodrome.
(c) The Dark Crystal.
(d) Tron.

9. How did Klosterman personally feel about the Pop Music Studies conference?
(a) He enjoyed himself.
(b) He was ultimately disappointed.
(c) He detested it completely.
(d) He was indifferent.

10. What does Klosterman plan to do at the end of Chapter 15 in order to meet a serial killer?
(a) Join a prison correspondence program.
(b) Pick up hitchhikers.
(c) Frequent S and M bars.
(d) Nothing.

11. In Chapter 13, Klosterman questions the logic of the protagonists' choices in The Matrix and Vanilla Sky because why?
(a) They reflect a privileged lifestyle.
(b) They are absolute choices.
(c) They are heedlessly heroic.
(d) They are not bases in reality.

12. What does the serial killer Cowboy Mike do with Klosterman's friend Sarah?
(a) He confessed to her in police custody.
(b) He murdered her.
(c) He danced with her.
(d) He bought a car from her.

13. In one hypothetical question, Klosterman offers the questioned a choice between a vacation in Europe or where?
(a) Heaven.
(b) The moon.
(c) The Antarctic.
(d) Narnia.

14. What is Klosterman's personal analogy for time?
(a) A stream.
(b) A zipline.
(c) A train.
(d) A cliff.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, which actor's 1970s career does Klosterman use as an example of films that expressed the zeitgeist?

2. Which of the following is not a story in the heavy news day Klosterman describes in a hypothetical question?

3. In his hypothetical questions, whose skull does Klosterman ask if a person would display in their home?

4. What does Klosterman insist was born in the story of the Star Wars franchise?

5. In Klosterman's hypothetical newspaper scenario in Chapter 16, why does the reporter miss the Mayor's call?

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