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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. Around which group of people are movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp organized?
(a) Women.
(b) Victims of domestic violence.
(c) Sex offenders.
(d) Women of color.

2. At ten, Tolentino admonished her younger self for looking at which kinds of sites during her first sessions online?
(a) Furbies.
(b) Tomagatchis.
(c) Beanie Babies.
(d) Pogo-balls.

3. In spring break of which year did Tolentino's family get a new computer for the family home?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2000.
(d) 2004.

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

5. Tolentino laments in "The I in Internet" the way in which womanhood can so often "feel like a story of loss of" (28) what?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Hope.
(c) Control.
(d) Identity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tolentino asserts that what element of society "always determines the shape of politics and culture" (10)?

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

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

5. What celestial body does Tolentino use in a metaphorical description of America within the introduction?

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