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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reality TV Me" and "Always Be Optimizing".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tolentino states that whenever she visits Sweetgreen, she generally eats her lunch in under how many minutes?
(a) 40.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 30.

2. What celestial body does Tolentino use in a metaphorical description of America within the introduction?
(a) Galaxy.
(b) Supernova.
(c) Black hole.
(d) Mars.

3. Tolentino states that she began writing Trick Mirror in which season of 2017?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

4. How does Tolentino describe the new organizing principle that came to envelop most online interactions in a particular year?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Opposition.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Money.

5. Tolentino tells the reader in the introduction that she tends to extinguish what feeling by writing?
(a) Anger.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Joy.
(d) Ennui.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which insect does Tolentino use to characterize early users of the internet?

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

4. Which social media giant is described as "reproducing the lessons of the marketplace" (63)?

5. What kind of bird was Nigel, the bird whose story went viral when he died protecting a concrete statue of another bird?

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