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

2. How many girls were members of the reality television show's cast?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

3. The first line of the essay "The I in Internet" states, "In the beginning the internet seemed" (7) what?
(a) Good.
(b) Boring.
(c) Fun.
(d) Harmless.

4. How many dollars did Tolentino's father offer to give her if she tried out for the reality show?
(a) 10.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

5. The title of the essay "Always Be Optimizing" is an allusion to which play?
(a) Rent.
(b) Cats.
(c) Waiting for Godot.
(d) Glengarry Glen Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which politician was the fiasco called Pizzagate aimed prior to the 2016 United States presidential election?

2. To which element of life does the term "panopticon" (16) refer, as explained by Tolentino in "The I in Internet"?

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

4. Tolentino states that she began writing Trick Mirror in which season of 2017?

5. Tolentino claims that the second problematic quality of the internet is that it encourages people to overestimate the value of what?

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