Trick Mirror Test | Final Test - Hard

Jia Tolentino
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Trick Mirror Test | Final Test - Hard

Jia Tolentino
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug does Tolentino claim can be useful to one's emotional health if used sparingly?

2. What kind of festival was the Fyre Festival discussed by Tolentino?

3. In what year were the first members of the millennial generation born?

4. Tolentino recalls her friend insisting that Tolentino had to play which Power Ranger in their game?

5. In what year was the final group of millennials born, according to Tolentino?

Short Essay Questions

1. Analyze Tolentino's reason for using an allusion to Ulysses in the essay entitled "Pure Heroines."

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

3. Why does Tolentino describe the Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus" as "now infamously, a graphic account of a gang rape at Phi Kappa Psi," (197) a fraternity at the University of Virginia?

4. For what reason did Tolentino end up attending the University of Virginia, though she had "applied mostly to schools in New England and California" (196)?

5. What does Tolentino mean when she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a nation-state" (169)?

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

7. What is the main claim being made within the essay entitled "Pure Heroines" and how do you know?

8. What connection does Tolentino draw between her religious upbringing and her interest in ecstasy?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how and why Tolentino instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Trick Mirror.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the effects of stress on the collection's discussed people and the coping methods each main subject uses to deal with emotional turmoil. Which people’s methods are effective, which are ineffective, and how do these varying levels of efficiency affect the messages sent within Tolentino’s book Trick Mirror?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Trick Mirror from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?

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