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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. How old is Esther Greenwood in the novel in which she is the featured protagonist?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 25.
(d) 23.

2. What term does Tolentino use to describe the salaries of college faculty in America during the twenty-first century?
(a) Stagnant.
(b) Falling.
(c) Rising.
(d) Soaring.

3. Tolentino had recently moved to which city at the time "A Rape on Campus" was published?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Chicago.
(c) New York City.
(d) Los Angeles.

4. How many people did Tolentino's church seat, according to her account?
(a) 800.
(b) 600.
(c) 400.
(d) 1,300.

5. What kind of debt had until recently been carried by the greatest number of Americans?
(a) Homeowner.
(b) Car.
(c) Credit card.
(d) Student.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tolentino was in college, a male student put Rophypnol into which substance that Tolentino was ingesting?

2. What level of school was Tolentino attending when she began to feel "twinges of guilt" (134) after each church service?

3. In what location was the Fyre Festival held?

4. At what age did Tolentino enter high school?

5. At the start of the essay entitled "Ecstasy," Tolentino recalls that the church of her childhood had trees of what variety on its property?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the symbolism of the Amazon building Tolentino discusses in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines"?

2. Discuss Tolentino's reason for discussing at length Sylvia Plath's novel The Bell Jar in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines."

3. Why does Tolentino use the term "Repentagon" (130) in association with her childhood church?

4. What underlying reasons does Tolentino point to when she discusses scam culture and its takeover of the online landscape?

5. What dark side does Tolentino discuss in relation to effervescent and young female characters in fiction?

6. How and why does Tolentino bring in the work of Simone de Beauvoir in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines"?

7. On which generation does the essay "The Story of a Generation of Seven Scams" focus?

8. To what types of evidence does Tolentino point after she states, "Something likely happened to Jackie on September 28, 2012" (203)?

9. What distinction does Tolentino make between the depiction of trauma in children's literature and the depiction of trauma in adult literature?

10. Who is Billy McFarland?

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