Reading Comprehension Quiz (Chuck Klosterman, “My Zombie, Myself”)
Reading Comprehension Quiz
Chuck Klosterman, “My Zombie, Myself”
Read “My Zombie, Myself” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.
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Klosterman argues that the popularity of zombies today is connected to the fact that
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A metaphor that Klosterman uses to connect the killing of zombies to modern life is
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How are life and a zombie attack alike, according to Klosterman?
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Klosterman argues that the “recent five-year spike in vampire interest is only about the multiplatform success of Twilight.” He also suggests that Twilight is not about vampirism. What is it about?
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Klosterman says that one of the simple attractions for the modern audience to zombies is that
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According to Klosterman, to love zombies means to love the entire zombie concept. Why is this?
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In the last paragraph of the essay, Klosterman uses imperative sentence structure and the second person pronoun (“you”). Why does he do this?
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Question
The last sentence of the essay is “But we can live better.” What does he mean by this?
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