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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Pure Heroines" and "Ecstasy".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolentino's friend had insisted that Tolentino could never play which color of Power Ranger in their game?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Orange.
(d) Blue.

2. What was the name of the friend who insisted that Tolentino had to play a particular color of Power Ranger?
(a) Maddie.
(b) Megan.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Allison.

3. What was the last name of the woman who wrote The Second Sex, the book discussed by Tolentino in the essay "Pure Heroines"?
(a) Kinsey.
(b) De Beauvoir.
(c) Pickford.
(d) Lancet.

4. What was NOT an element about which Tolentino was excited when her family got a new computer during spring break?
(a) Sending an email.
(b) IMS.
(c) Having a profile.
(d) Chatting.

5. On what channel did Boys Vs. Girls appear, according to Tolentino?
(a) Discovery.
(b) Noggin.
(c) Nat Geo.
(d) PBS.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tolentino describes the topics of the collection's essays by using which object as a metaphor?

2. The title of the essay "Always Be Optimizing" is an allusion to which play?

3. To which television show does Tolentino allude toward the end of the essay entitled "Always Be Optimizing"?

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

5. 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?

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