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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction and "The I in Internet".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolentino laments in "The I in Internet" the way in which womanhood can so often "feel like a story of loss of" (28) what?
(a) Identity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Control.
(d) Confidence.

2. Tolentino says that which two decades of the internet's existence were marked by gatherings of people in open forums?
(a) The 70s and 80s.
(b) The 80s and 90s.
(c) The 00s and 10s.
(d) The 90s and 00s.

3. What is NOT a word Tolentino uses to describe particular elements of the internet that soured after a turning point she names?
(a) Tedious.
(b) Banal.
(c) Noxious.
(d) Grim.

4. What is NOT one of the three "nightmarish metaphorical structures" (16) Tolentino says the internet added to the existing structures of stage and audience?
(a) Panopticon.
(b) Anvil.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Echo.

5. In what grade was Tolentino when she used the internet for the first time?
(a) Fifth.
(b) First.
(c) Tenth.
(d) Third.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolentino claims that the second problematic quality of the internet is that it encourages people to overestimate the value of what?

2. Tolentino asserts that the first problematic quality of the internet is that it is built with the intention of taking what action in relation to our identities?

3. To which element of life does the term "panopticon" (16) refer, as explained by Tolentino in "The I in Internet"?

4. Tolentino states in the essay "The I in Internet" that what product "has become capitalism's last natural resource" (11) as a result of the internet?

5. Tolentino notes that the third problematic trait of the internet is that it distends what types of feelings?

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