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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 claims that the second problematic quality of the internet is that it encourages people to overestimate the value of what?
(a) Their empathy.
(b) Their individual experiences.
(c) Their friends and family.
(d) Their opinions.

2. What does Tolentino name as the most problematic trait of the internet?
(a) Its inhibits the ability to perceive scale.
(b) Its inhibits the ability to perceive difference.
(c) Its inhibits the ability to perceive reality.
(d) Its inhibits the ability to prioritize.

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

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?
(a) Technology.
(b) Bandwidth.
(c) Selfhood.
(d) Deception.

5. Which insect does Tolentino use to characterize early users of the internet?
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Moth.
(c) Aphed.
(d) Firefly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In spring break of which year did Tolentino's family get a new computer for the family home?

3. How does Tolentino describe the new organizing principle that came to envelop most online interactions in a particular year?

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

5. Tolentino says that which two decades of the internet's existence were marked by gatherings of people in open forums?

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