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

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

3. 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) Bandwidth.
(b) Selfhood.
(c) Deception.
(d) Technology.

4. 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) Identity.
(d) Control.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The pizza parlor associated with Pizzagate was called DC's Comet what?

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

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

4. What was NOT an element about which Tolentino was excited when her family got a new computer during spring break?

5. At ten, Tolentino admonished her younger self for looking at which kinds of sites during her first sessions online?

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