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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 old was Tolentino when she joined the Peace Corps?
(a) 19.
(b) 23.
(c) 21.
(d) 25.

2. What was NOT an element about which Tolentino was excited when her family got a new computer during spring break?
(a) IMS.
(b) Chatting.
(c) Sending an email.
(d) Having a profile.

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

4. In which publication did a writer first use the chopped salad as a metaphor for the frenetic pace of life?
(a) The Awl.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Washington Post.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

5. How old was Tolentino when she was cast on a reality television show?
(a) 14.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

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. Tolentino tells the reader in the introduction that she tends to extinguish what feeling by writing?

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

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

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

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