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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “The Story of a Generation of Seven Scams” and "We Come From Virginia".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Tolentino's discussions of Facebook, she asserts that Mark Zuckerberg "controls a" (169) what?
(a) Population.
(b) Hemisphere.
(c) Country.
(d) Nation-state.

3. How many people in the world are wealthier than Mark Zuckerberg, according to Tolentino?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

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

5. In which level of school was Tolentino when she was featured on a reality television series?
(a) Middle school.
(b) College.
(c) High school.
(d) Elementary school.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the article "A Rape on Campus" was published, for how many years had Erdely been out of college?

2. In what month of the year was the disastrous Fyre Festival held?

3. What term does Tolentino use in the essay "Ecstasy" to refer to the church she attended throughout childhood and part of adolescence?

4. How many people did Tolentino's church seat, according to her account?

5. What kind of debt does Tolentino characterize as a "generation-defining scam" (188)?

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