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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. Which of the following is not an inherent problem that Klosterman lists in Eating the Dinosaur?
(a) It eliminates the orgins of things.
(b) It changes memory.
(c) It is scientifically impossible.
(d) It leads to multiple realities.

2. What southern fast food establishment plays prominently in country music, according to Klosterman in Chapter 14?
(a) Krystal Burger.
(b) Checkers.
(c) Tastee Freeze.
(d) Dairy Queen.

3. 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.

4. Which character did not disappear abruptly at some point in the final season of Saved by the Bell?
(a) Lisa Turtle.
(b) Jessie Spano.
(c) Kelli Kapowski.
(d) Tori.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Klosterman view the attitudes of agnostics toward born-agains?

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

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

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

5. Sylvester Graham argued that insanity is linked to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do page designers affect the news?

4. What disagreement does Chuck Klosterman with critics regarding Vanilla Sky?

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

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

7. Describe to conflict between alternative and mainstream country music.

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

9. What does Klosterman think that "what is reality?" films are teaching us?

10. What is the essence of coolness, as described in Chapter 10?

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