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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 says that which two decades of the internet's existence were marked by gatherings of people in open forums?
(a) The 70s and 80s.
(b) The 80s and 90s.
(c) The 00s and 10s.
(d) The 90s and 00s.

2. How many essays in total are collected within the book Trick Mirror?
(a) 9.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

3. What kind of bird was Nigel, the bird whose story went viral when he died protecting a concrete statue of another bird?
(a) A hawk.
(b) A seagull.
(c) A crow.
(d) A robin.

4. What year does Tolentino name as a turning point for the internet's transition to a new organizing principle?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2009.

5. At which politician was the fiasco called Pizzagate aimed prior to the 2016 United States presidential election?
(a) Hillary Clinton.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Donald Trump.
(d) Barack Obama.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Angelfire subpage Tolentino presents for the reader's inspection was created when Tolentino was how old?

3. Around which group of people are movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp organized?

4. The fourth problematic trait of the internet, according to Tolentino, is its tendency to diffuse our understanding of what element of life?

5. In what grade was Tolentino when she used the internet for the first time?

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