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

2. In what year did Klosterman attend the Pop Music Studies conference?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1990.

3. To Klosterman, serial killing is a modern crime because it validates what?
(a) An irrational fear.
(b) The absence of a god.
(c) The need for psychoanalysis.
(d) Nothing.

4. According to Klosterman in Chapter 12, The Empire Strikes Back celebrates what?
(a) The loss of innocence.
(b) The friendship of its characters.
(c) The defeat of its characters.
(d) The uniting of former foes.

5. In his hypothetical questions, whose skull does Klosterman ask if a person would display in their home?
(a) Their mother's.
(b) Jesus's.
(c) His.
(d) Hitler's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Klosterman's personal analogy for time?

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

3. According to Klosterman in Chapter 16, what drives bias in journalism?

4. In Chapter 10, Klosterman argues the a child's cereal choice is made to avoid being what?

5. At the end of Chapter 16, Klosterman declares that who controls the content of modern newspapers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does a Dixie Chicks concert reveal a cultural shift to Chuck Klosterman?

6. What is the book Left Behind about?

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

8. What annoys Horace and his friends about Chet the dog-lover?

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

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

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